Transsexuals have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, prostitution, and incarceration than normal people.
Worldwide, male-to-female transsexuals are 50 times likely to have HIV than normal people.
Transsexuals are several times more likely than normal people to have schizophrenia.
27% of MtF transsexuals test positive for HIV. Only 12% report it.
Transsexuals college students are 30 times more likely than straight men to have eating disorders.
Transsexuals college students are five times more likely than all students to have an eating disorder.
Transsexuals are more likely to have autism than the general population.
44% of transsexuals show signs of clinical depression.
85% of transsexuals show signs of psychological distress or have been recently treated for mental health.
1/3 transsexuals are being treated for mental health.
“24% of lesbians and bisexual women are poor, compared with only 19% of heterosexual women.”
Children raised by gay couples are twice as likely to be in poverty as children of straight married couples.
44% of transsexuals with a job are underemployed.
20-40% of homeless children are transsexuals.
Gay and transgender students are half as likely to graduate high school as straight students.
16% of transsexuals have been sent to jail or prison, compared to 2.7% of the general population.
53% of mothers of transsexual children have Borderline Personality Disorder, compared to only 6% of mothers of normal children.
Only 21% of transsexuals can sucessfully pass as the opposite gender.
1 in 10 young transsexuals has attempted suicide more than three times in the last year.
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