Almost half of trans people said that coming out at work harmed their career; over a quarter were fired just for coming out as transgender. In Canada, 39% of people have been turned down by an employer just because they are transgender. If you’re a PoC and transgender, the negative impact is two to three times more likely to happen to you, and if it does, the negative effects are much worse. Just over one in ten white trans people are unemployed. For trans PoC, that jumps to almost one in three. In many ways, it’s easier for people to leave one employer as their birth gender and start fresh with a new employer as their correct gender.
“I was so sick of hiding and exhausted from keeping myself a secret, I felt crushed by it.”
–Sophie Campbell
