Trans asylum seekers fleeing persecution in countries like Jamaica, El Salvador, or Uganda often end up in ICE detention, where they are frequently misgendered, housed with men, and denied hormones.

face a triple threat: transphobia, misogyny, and racism. They experience homelessness, incarceration, and murder at rates exponentially higher than white trans people or cisgender queer people.

A 2021 study found that transgender people are four times more likely to live in extreme poverty ($10k/year or less) than cisgender people. Trans people are twice as likely to be unemployed. This poverty forces many into survival economies, including sex work, which remains a major vector of HIV transmission and police violence.

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