Research indicates that roughly 77% of transgender people identify as something other than straight, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer.

Transgender people, particularly women of color, experience violence at disproportionate rates. Statistics from the Human Rights Campaign show that a majority (54%) of transgender people have experienced intimate partner violence. Transgender Identity within LGBTQ Culture

The term "transgender" gained popularity in the 1960s as a more accurate and less clinical alternative to older terms.

Transgender and gender-nonconforming people have existed throughout history, but the modern rights movement was significantly shaped by key 20th-century events.

The transgender community is a central part of the broader LGBTQ culture, sharing a history of activism rooted in challenging rigid norms of gender and attraction. While transgender identity refers specifically to an internal sense of gender that differs from the sex assigned at birth, it is deeply intertwined with the queer community as a whole. Historical Foundations and Transgender Visibility

Transgender adults are twice as likely as cisgender adults to be uninsured. Economic vulnerability is also high; for example, the unemployment rate for transgender people is three times higher than the general population, with even higher disparities for people of color.