article_snippet.sent: Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity --
article_snippet.sent: Transgender internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman -- differs from what's typically associated with Transgender sex at birth.
article_snippet.sent: Some transgender people alter Some transgender people bodies through hormones and or surgery, although many don't.
article_snippet.sent: A 2011 study estimated that 700,000 American adults, or roughly 0.3% of the population, identified themselves as transgender.
article_snippet.sent: For decades, trans people, as many transgender people like to be called, rarely saw many transgender people represented in popular culture.
article_snippet.sent: I believe that the more people who know transgender people, the more the more people who know transgender people will understand, accept and support us," Mora says.
article_snippet.sent: That happens only if the more people who know transgender people, the more they will understand, accept and support us acknowledge our humanity, and not treat our like tabloid fodder.
article_snippet.sent: The transgender life: What to know, say and understand .
article_snippet.sent: Still, activists agree there's a long way to go before transgender people stop facing discrimination or worse.
article_snippet.sent: Transgender people have long been misunderstood and persecuted -- as recently as 2012, the American Psychiatric Association classified Transgender people as having a mental "disorder.
article_snippet.sent: A recent report by the Human Rights Campaign found that transgender people in the United States are more likely to face discrimination from employers and the effects of unemployment and poverty.
article_snippet.sent: A poll last year found that 59% of Americans believe transgender students should use the bathroom of transgender students birth gender.
article_snippet.sent: In December, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that transgender people will receive federal protection from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
article_snippet.sent: But violence against trans people -- especially transgender women of color -- remains a national plague.
article_snippet.sent: According to recent statistics from the Human Rights Campaign, at least 13 transgender women were slain last year in the United States and at least seven have already been killed last year.
article_snippet.sent: In one case that made national headlines, a transgender Ohio teen committed suicide in late December after a transgender
article_snippet.sent: Ohio teen parents refused to acknowledge a transgender Ohio teen wish to live as a girl.
article_snippet.sent: Transgender people are still subject to profound discrimination and violence," said Wilchins.