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The black transgender and gender non-conforming community has been found to face discrimination to a higher extent than the rest of the transgender community, which is due to the intersection of racism and transphobia. Research has been found that this community experiences a higher level of poverty, suicide attempts, harassment, and the effect of HIV alongside being refused health care because of transphobia and/or racism. The National LGBTQ task force conducted a survey to find out the trends of the black transgender non-conforming community and how it compares to the transgender community.

The survey found that amongst the black respondents 49% reported having attempted suicide. Additional findings were that this group reported that 26% are unemployed and 34% reported an annual income of less than $10,000 per year (state median income of gen pop). 42% of respondents reported homelessness which is five times the rate of the US homelessness rate. Also, finding that the black transgender or gender non-conforming community reported 20.23% were living with HIV. 27% of black transgender youth reported being physically assaulted, 15% were sexually assaulted and 21% left school due to these instances of harassment.