Our new study, published on Feb. 11, suggests that such protections are
   sorely needed. On nearly all measures of economic and social
   well-being, transgender people do much worse.

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   progressive-leaning states, such as California or Massachusetts, or
   used “convenience” or “snowball” samples of transgender people where
   participants are recruited through social networks.

   These types of data are useful, but they might not accurately reflect
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   transgender?” over 2,100 adults responded “yes.”

   Although this is only a fraction of 1% of the total survey sample, this
   is a much larger sample of transgender people than has been used in
   other survey-based studies. And, importantly, it allowed us to examine