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62. Overcoming Systemic Transphobia in Mental Health (with Rachel Bennett and Dr. David Nylund)

Very Bad Therapy

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Therapus Are So Important to Trans People's Lives

Therapus have such aamazingly huge role to play in trans people's lives. It affects families, it affects our mental health. And that's exactly where theripis work best. Ii can give you some statistics. If in the us, four point six % of the people have attempted cide transpeople, its forty percent. Iv rates us. Rate is point three%. Transwomen is three point four percentage. Black transwomen,. 19 we um, 17%) drop out in high school because of harassment. 16% hof lost jobs because of being trans. 23 have been homeless in the last year. 20 per cent have participated in sex work. That's honorable

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