Trans lives survey 2021: Enduring the UK's hostile environment

C.L. Bachmann, B. Gooch

This report presents the findings from the TransActual Community Voice Survey. This survey of British trans people conducted by TransActual, a trans-led organisation empowering and advocating for trans people across the UK, was conducted in 2021 to learn more about the scale and impact of the issues trans people face in the UK. This survey received nearly 700 responses from people who trusted us with details of their lived experiences, and examines how trans people experience homelessness, employment and medical discrimination, and social stigma. These findings represent a disturbing but unsurprising picture of a community struggling to thrive in hard conditions, and due to generally poor and inappropriate collection of official data on trans people, this survey report is a huge step forward in our understanding and evidencing of intersectional anti trans discrimination in the UK. This report also discusses potential explanations of the data, and makes recommendations for government, healthcare providers, employers, and other relevant stakeholders for how they can address the inequalities faced by trans people in the UK.