For the transgender community, work can be a difficult world to navigate

Article • Febuary 2023 • The Boston Globe
Matisse DuPont (right) spoke to potential employers while attending the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce's job fair focused on the transgender community on Jan. 17.ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF Picture credit: Boston Globe

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Navigating the world of work can be enormously challenging for members of the transgender community, and changing jobs is especially tricky. Nationwide, transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed as cisgender adults (whose gender identity corresponds with their sex assigned at birth), and they make a third less money, with a much smaller proportion of transgender workers in management or leadership roles.