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ryansallans:

Last week France passed a law that will now protect the transgender community from discrimination and harassment. Yet another country has moved to fair and equal treatment, which makes the U.S. fall further and further behind everyone else. Something alarming from a recent poll found that, “34 percent of young trans people in France have attempted suicide and 19 percent have been disowned by their family. Those numbers are even higher in the U.S., where 41 percent of trans people have attempted suicide and 57 percent experience significant family rejection. Establishing legal protections are an important first step to reducing anti-trans discrimination, a step the U.S. has yet to take.” 

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