Key Takeaways
- Transgender Black unemployment 21.3% per USTS 2022
- Transgender Latinx unemployment 17.8% USTS 2022
- Transgender Asian unemployment 11.2% Williams 2021
- UK ONS 2021: Transgender unemployment rate at 8.5% vs 4.1% general
- Canada StatsCan 2022: 9.2% unemployment for trans/non-binary vs 5.3% cis
- Australia ABS 2023: Trans unemployment 11.4% vs 4.2% national
- USTS 2015 to 2022 trans unemployment dropped from 15% to 12%
- Williams Institute: Trans unemployment gap 4.8% in 2015 to 5.1% in 2021
- Post-COVID trans unemployment rose 3.2 points to 14.5% in 2020 UCLA
- In the 2022 USTS survey, 12% of transgender respondents reported being unemployed in the past year, compared to 5% of the U.S. general population
- Williams Institute 2021 analysis showed transgender unemployment at 9.3% for working-age adults from 2017-2020, versus 4.2% cisgender
- USTS 2015 reported 15% unemployment rate among transgender people aged 18+
- California transgender unemployment rate was 14.2% in 2021 per state health survey
- New York trans unemployment 13.8% in 2022 NYC survey
- Texas trans unemployment estimated at 15.6% by Williams Institute 2020
Transgender people face unemployment rates up to 21.3%, far above the national average of 3.6%.
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How We Rate Confidence
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