ImpactofDiscrimination ...onHealth

IncreasedHomelessness

A 2018 University of Chicago study found that LGBT+ young adults experience homelessness at more than 2x the rate of their straight peers.

59% of LGBTQ+ people have faced some sort of discrimination or harassment when accessing housing services.

HealthRisksofLivingOutside

HIV infections for transgender people are over 4 times the nationalaverageof HIV infections. Incomplete HIV viral suppression was 3.84 times higher for those with unstable housing, meaning more spread and complications due to HIV/AIDS happen for those with unstable housing.

AccessibilityNeeds

The risk for having disabilities in the transgender population is nearly double that of the cisgender population. At age 20, transgender adults 27% more likely to experience at least one disability, increasing to 39%byage55. Transgender adults with a disability were between two and five times as likely as cisgender adults with a disability to experience numerousformsofunmetneedsforhealthcare

AccesstoMedicalProfessionals

24% of USTS respondents did not see a doctor in the past year when they needed to because of fear of being mistreated as a transgenderperson

34% of Black respondents who saw a health care provider in the past year reported having at least one negative experience relatedtobeingtransgender