Keys To the Closet: Jaime Grant

March 28, 2011 Posted at http://keystothecloset.blogspot.com/ reposted from

More than 40 percent of transgender Americans have attempted suicide. That's according to a new, first-of-its-kind survey into discrimination against people who express a gender identity different to the one with which they were born. Host Michel Martin discusses the findings and experiences within transgender communities with Jaime Grant and Michelle Enfield, a transgender woman who was born a biological male.

This report is avaialble at:
http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_full.pdf

Quote of the Week

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage.

At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm same-sex couples should be able to get married,” President Barrack Obama.

Keys To the Closet

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Study: Discrimination Takes A Toll On Transgender Americans