Trans- und nicht-binäre Arbeitnehmer sind schlechter dran als cis-Kollegen

Don’t have time to delve in through all the data, but this point came out as particularly common:

>An additional factor contributing to transgender and non-binary peoples’ socioeconomic challenges was living arrangements. According to the Census data, cisgender people were more likely to live in a married or common-law couple, and thus combine incomes. By contrast, gender-diverse people were more likely to live with roommates, relatives or alone. Non-binary people, in particular, were more than twice as likely as other groups to live alone.

If you’ve ever spent time in *any* transgender or non-binary spaces, you’ll know that we are statistically more likely to experience homelessness or precarious housing. This data aligns with that reality, but it also highlights another critical issue: social isolation. Many of us lose family and friends while becoming our truest selves, mostly due to their own transmisia or inability to accept us as we are.

This is why maintaining connections within the community (or with those who genuinely accept us) is so vital. Even emotional support can make a profound difference. Humans are inherently social, and without these connections, we are more vulnerable to struggling or falling into worse situations.

It also undermines that being ‚trans‘ is just a choice. No one I know would just ‚choose‘ to be trans, if anything its more common for us to wish *not* to be, because it’s just so much easier being cisgendered. Cisgender people don’t have the same stigmatization, the same dirty looks thrown at them, or the constant slurs or deliberate misgendering thrown their way.

Overall, gender-diverse people worked fewer hours and in lower-wage occupations than cisgender men. In particular, the former were much less likely to work on a full-time or full-year basis. Whereas more than 40 per cent of cisgender men reported full-time, full-year work, only 31.4 per cent of non-binary people, 30.5 per cent of transgender men and 25.7 per cent of transgender women did so. Interestingly, the figure was 30.8 per cent for cisgender women — better than both categories of trans people, but falling behind both cis men and non-binary people.

At the same time, non-binary people were also the most likely to report working on a part-time and/or part-year basis (36.7 per cent). The share of non-binary people who worked both part-time and part-year (14.7 per cent) was about twice as high as cisgender men (7.4 per cent), and higher than all other groups.