New study finds transgender people twice as likely to serve in military

According to new research, 20% of the transgender people serve in the military, which is twice the rate of the general population service in the United States. The working group urges the US Department of Defense to abolish discrimination based on military gender identity

"The Department of Defense must allow transgender people to open their services," said Darin Nipper, vice president of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "These brave men and women paid a lot of sacrifice by serving our country - this should be their struggle as active soldiers and veterans."

Jack Harrison-Quintana, manager of the Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Research Institute, and Jody Herman, TransGender Research Manager at Williams Research Institute "It is still silenced: Transgendered service members and national transgender discrimination survey Veteran in Transgendered Service Personnel and dealing with discrimination of veterans, employment, housing, education, access to health care and identity cards. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey is a joint research by the National Center for Task Force and Transgender Gender.

Respondents explained the various experiences related to military service. A 28 year old transgender man explained his frustration. "What I care most about is that I will never join the army, it will break my heart ... as I grow older I will really start thinking. If I If you can not serve in any way to the country of that, it will be a regret of my life. "

Transgender and gender-qualified people who serve in the military experienced homeless people at an amazing rate (21%). This figure is about 3 times the life rate (7.4%) of the general population.

Service NTDS respondents were unlikely to lose work due to denaturation prevention bias (36%) and / or were not hired for prejudice (53%), not non-retired NTDS. More than half of NTDS respondents were harassed (54%)

"In reality, after respecting and serving the country, transgender veterans often face discrimination in employment, housing, medical care and other environments," Nipper said. "Transgender must be able to serve in the army if they choose to serve, and must receive all the benefits and services without discrimination."

This research will be published in the LGBTQ Public Policy Journal to be held at the Kennedy School of Harvard University. The digital version of the report can be obtained online from here.

The possibility that transgender people serve in the military is nearly twice that of the general population, the 2015 National Center for Transgender Equality has discovered. This data is collected while the ban still exists and is confirming that the policy does not prevent all transgender people from serving. The human rights movement estimates that there are approximately 15,000 transgender in the army. Another navy veteran of the transgender is Monica Helms. And that person created a flag of cross-pride. "All myths about cross military in the military are the same as the myth that they prefer to hand over to military homosexuals." We can not handle this work, it will be too much trouble, the bathroom How about the problem? I heard the same thing over and over again, "she told Huffington Post.

The military is the largest employer of transgender people in the United States, serving more than 15,000 people. One out of every five transgender Americans are wearing uniforms. This is more than twice the size of the general population in the United States. But due to President Trump 's new policy, he started it on Twitter yesterday at 6 am, and the future of these service personnel is still undecided. The ban sent devastating information to transgender Americans. Trump gender Americans deserve equal access to American basic rights so that transgendered students support the right to use real sex bathrooms is the same Obama guidance is the same Do not say.