: Approximately 29% of trans adults report being refused healthcare due to their identity. This is compounded by high rates of mental health conditions and suicidality linked to societal stigma and family rejection.

: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sex Research in the 1920s-30s was a pioneer in transgender care before being destroyed by the Nazi regime.

: The unemployment rate for trans people is three times the national average; for Black trans individuals, it is four times higher.

Transgender and gender-nonconforming people were central to the early militant protests that defined modern LGBTQ activism.

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