TRANSGENDER IMMIGRANTS in California

Transgender Immigrants in California | 3 • Most transgender immigrants reported being born in one of three regions: Asia and the Pacific Islands (36.9%), Mexico (26.6%), and Europe (18.9%). [...] Transgender Immigrants in California | 4 INTRODUCTION Transgender immigrants live at the unique intersection of transgender status and immigrant status. [...] We estimate that there are a total of 174,200 transgender adult immigrants in the United States, including 41,000 transgender immigrants who live in California.1 Within the state of California, 26.8% of transgender adults are immigrants.2 Transgender people report significant discrimination, harassment, and victimization in the U. [...] Transgender Survey (USTS), the largest survey of transgender people in the country to date, did include such questions and found that approximately 6% of respondents were not citizens by birth compared to 13.7% of the general population.12 The underrepresentation of immigrants in the USTS may have been due to sampling limitations, the languages in which the survey was available (English and Spanis. [...] While the largest concentration of transgender immigrants was in the Bay Area (42.3%), the largest concentration of U.