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Fast Facts

• The amount of hate crimes related to gender-identity increased by 20% in 2019. (i)

• 22% of transgender people who have interacted with police reported experiencing police harassment. (ii)

• With discrimination in jobs, education and services, poverty has long been a queer issue. The trans community are twice as likely to be unemployed compared to cisgender individuals. (iii)

• 90% of the trans community report having experienced some kind of harassment, mistreatment and discrimination in the workplace. One survey found that only 30% of homeless shelters were open to housing transgender women. As a result, LGBTQ-identified people (namely trans people) often rely on sex work as a means of survival. (iv)