Transgender Awareness Week Poster 1r3en

TRANSGENDER AWARENESS WEEK

NOVEMBER 12–NOVEMBER 19

#TAW12

Transgender Awareness Week is a series of statewide events and educational opportunities dedicated to educating people about the transgender community and raising awareness of the pressing issues facing trans and gender nonconforming people in Massachusetts. TRANSGENDER 101 Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity or expression differs from societal expectations of how they should look, act, or identify based on the sex assigned to them at birth. Transgender is used to describe a diverse group of people: male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM) transgender people, genderqueer individuals, and many others.1 According to a survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, transgender individuals face significant health disparities 2:

50% reported having to teach their

medical providers about transgender care

28% reported being subjected to harassment in medical setting

19%

reported being refused care due to their transgender or gender non-conforming status

THE TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Transgender Awareness Week culminates with the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which memorializes those who have died because of antitransgender discrimination and victimization. Find observances online at masstpc.org/events/tdor

41%

reported attempting suicide compared to 1.6% of the general population, with unemployment, low income, and sexual assault raising risk factors2.

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE! Attend a Transgender Awareness Week event. Find events

on the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s website at masstpc.org/events/trans-awareness-week

the conversation on social media. Let your social network know you the trans community. Tag your Transgender Awareness Week tweets with #TAW12. Fenway Health and the Borum will be posting information and graphics you can share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Educate yourself. Learn more about transgender issues and health care at fenwayhealth.org/transhealth.

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1. Fenway Health “Glossary of Gender and Transgender ” fenwayhealth.org/genderglossary Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition “Transgender 101” masstpc.org/about/transgender-101 2. National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force “National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health care” transequality.org/PDFs/NTDSReportonHealth_final.pdf