Bigotry is definedas unfair treatment because of an individual's membership in a particular grouping.

Transgender Discrimination in the U.S.

From the 2015 U.Southward. Transgender Survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality:

  • Triple the rate of unemployment: Survey respondents experience unemployment at iii times the rate of the population as a whole.
  • Pregnant losses of jobs and careers: sixteen percent (16%) reported losing a job because of their gender identity in their lifetime and of respondents who had a job in the previous year, 30% reported being fired, denied a promotion, or experiencing some other course of mistreatment related to their gender identity or expression.
  • High rates of poverty: 20-nine percent (29%) of transgender people in our sample were living below the poverty line.
  • Significant housing instability: 30 pct (30%) of our sample take been or are homeless, 23% have faced eviction or were denied housing, and 26% were forced to seek temporary space.
  • Caitiff access to accurate identity documents: only xi percent  (11%) of respondents who wanted to update their ID documents reported that all of their IDs had their correct proper name and gender and 68% reported that none  of their IDs had their right name or gender.

Bigotry in Massachusetts: Findings from the U.S. Transgender Survey

The Massachusetts findings from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Centre for Transgender Equality showed:

  • 21% of respondents were evicted from housing or were denied housing considering of their gender identity or expression.
  • 24% of respondents have experienced homelessness in their lifetime.
  • 22% of respondents who held or applied for a chore in the previous year reported beingness fired, denied a promotion, or non being hired considering of their gender identity or expression.
  • Just 11% of respondents reported that all of their IDs had their correct proper name and gender, while 61% reported that none of their IDs had their correct name or gender.
  • 28% of respondents experienced a trouble with health insurance coverage related to their gender identity, including denied for transition-related care or denial of routine intendance because of their gender identity.
  • 52% of respondents who have interacted with police reported harassment by officers including verbal harassment, physical and/or sexual attack, and repeated misgendering.
  • 61% of transgender adults reported existence uncomfortable seeking police assist when needed.

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If you believe that you take been the victim of discrimination in employment, housing, a homeless shelter, a hospital, a school, at a bank, by a authorities or land agency, the police, a retail establishment, a restaurant, a hotel, while voting, or you have been the victim of a hate crime because of your gender identity or gender expression, there are resource to assist you.

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How to file complaints of discrimination with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Role

There are laws that protect the rights of trans and gender nonconforming people in Massachusetts. If you believe that yous have been the victim of bigotry or have experienced threats, intimidation, or compulsion considering of your gender identity or gender expression, please contact the Civil Rights Division of the Attorney General's Office in one of the following ways:

  • File an e-complaint online at www.mass.gov/ago/complaints (select "Civil Rights Complaint")
  • Call our hotline at (617) 963-2917; for TTY please call (617) 727-4765
  • Meet with us in person at 100 Cambridge Street, 11th Floor, Boston, MA 02108 betwixt nine:00 a.m. and v:00 p.thou. on weekdays.
How to file with the MA Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) for Gender-Based Housing or Employment Discrimination

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How the MCAD Process Works

A charge of gender-based bigotry* must be filed in person at the Massachusetts Commission Against Bigotry (MCAD). If you believe you lot have been discriminated confronting, you should go direct to one of the MCAD locations in Boston, Worcester or Springfield inside 300 days of the incident.

What yous should bring?

Bring any relevant names, dates, addresses, telephone numbers, witnesses' names; and whatever other paperwork that volition assist investigate and establish your accusation of unlawful bigotry.

For employment: Have your employer's name, accost, the approximate number of employees and name of parent company.

For housing: Have the landlord'southward or property manager's name and/or the real estate amanuensis'due south name.

For public accommodations: Bring the name of the owner or manager of the institution.

Office Hours: eight:45am – 5:00pm, Monday – Friday. Most claims take most 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete from start to finish.

*Discrimination confronting trans people currently falls nether "sex" discrimination and/or disability discrimination under the MCAD regulations.

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