Thinking again how the trans unemployment rate back in 2022 when the economy was doing better was 18% and how that's 4 times as high as the national rate and basically twice as high as any other group of people in the US

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

April 11, 2026 - 07:01 UTC

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and how much lower is labor force participation rate for trans people.
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Lol we literally don't know as best as I can tell, nobody has ever bothered to measure it. We only have the unemployment rate from data collected by trans people themselves
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Was laid off from my last decently-paying job in January 2025, transitioned in June that year, but ultimately wasn’t able to get work until August, just as my unemployment compensation dried up. Have been right back where I started since January this year, but now with no UC - numbers seem right
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I’m exhausted, I’m burnt out on the endless job application cycle, and I don’t have the energy to be any more annoying about it than this when folks who had already established their online presence are in just as dire straits

If capitalism doesn’t fizzle out soon, I, and countless others, will
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Gives me complicating feelings about how y'all were perceived with zero knowledge vs. The slightest exposure
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We weren't hired before. We were actively fired if we came out at work. This is *better* than it used to be.
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I am literally so fucking highly trained in my industry but cis people are always sidelining me

Whenever I do get a gig people are like “holy shit this is the best I’ve ever seen this done” and I’m like I fucking know I’ve been doing this unpaid for decades
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yea it's

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guess I'll j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶i̶e̶ do SW to survive 😿
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At the worst moment of the 2008 financial collapse the national unemployment rate almost hit 10%. The trans unemployment rate in a regular year is almost double that. Even the peak of the lockdowns were only 14%.

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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If you want to find unemployment rates worse than just again LITERALLY AN AVERAGE YEAR OF BEING TRANS BEFORE THE WORST OF THE ANTI-TRANS MOMENT you have to go back to the worst 4 years of the Great Depression.

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