It’s no secret that trans people face heightened levels of discrimination when seeking employment. A 2011 report found that the rate of unemployment of trans people was twice that of the cisgender population—which, assuming about a 4 – 5% rate for cis people, likely would have put it at about 8 – 10%. However, that may have been an undercount, as in the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey 18% of respondents stated they were currently unemployed. Another survey by McKinsey and Company found that as much as 30% of the trans population is not in the workforce, indicating that many trans people have simply stopped even trying to find a job.
A lot of people in my life think it’s weird that I’m so loyal to my dead-end white collar job with mediocre pay that sometimes has me work overtime, and this is why. At least I have job security, and it can be hard to have higher aspirations when I’m deathly afraid of ending up a NEET or having to resort to sex work.
This was such a depressing study to read.
Yeah, all unemployment numbers are bad really, though. They don’t take into account underemployment or people who have had to mostly give up (or at least have been looking for so long that the stats drop them) and live with family, rely on a partner’s income, or become unhoused. There are a lot of people across all categories that are missing from these numbers mostly for political reasons.
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