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Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor

  • Written by Christopher Carpenter, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Director of the Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab, Vanderbilt University
Aimee Stephens worked for a Detroit funeral home for six years before telling her employer she wanted to be issued a female uniform. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

The United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling this year in a landmark case that will determine whether transgender people – individuals whose sex assigned at birth does not...

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