NEWS | OutBoise Magazine | 23
March 2015 | Issue 5.2 | OutBoise.com
The bullying continued on a daily
basis. She said that at the age of
11, she thought about suicide often.
She even had a date planned and
knew how she was going to kill
herself. At this point in her life her
mom’s problems were overshadowing the home. She reached out,
called an aunt who reached her
father and Tim came back into the
picture full time. He had lost his job
and was looking for work. He eventually decided to take a job in Boise.
He explained that before the
move to Boise, they would just keep
his daughter’s condition quiet. His
anxiety was high and he said that
while he was injured and unable to
work full time, he started to research
what it meant to be transgender.
He was terrified with what he found.
Statistics showing the story of something he knew he didn’t want for his
child.
According to a report done by
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force and the National Center for
Transgender Equality, statistics of
assault rates on transgender people
are as high as 78 percent. According to a study done by the Williams
Institute, suicide rates are as high as
45 percent for the age group of 1824. Not a lot of information is available for those under the age of 18.
Those same statistics show that often
transgender people are rejected by
health care workers, family and job.
Many end up living in poverty and
have experienced homelessness.