Sentences with phrase «cisgender peers»
According to a 2015 survey [PDF] by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 77 percent of transgender youth were mistreated at school (ranging from verbal harassment to prohibitions on dressing according to gender identity to physical or sexual assault); according to the Human Rights Campaign, transgender youth are twice as likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol [PDF] as straight, cisgender peers.
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A 2014 article published in the academic journal Medical Forces & Society concluded that transgender service members were as deployable and medically ready as their cisgender peers, with few exceptions.