During Pride Month: Learn to Be an Ally to Transgender People in Your Community

Posted by City of Philadelphia on June 28, 2022

Data shows that transgender people, and especially transgender women of color, experience a high rate of violence, including intimate partner violence. In the most recent National Transgender Survey, nearly half of those surveyed reported being verbally harassed because of their transgender identity in the previous year alone. And about one in 10 reported being physically attacked in the last year.

We can help create safer spaces for the transgender people in our workplaces, social circles, families, and communities by becoming reliable trans allies.

Here are a few ways you can do that.


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