; Whereas transgender women of color, including American Indian (59 percent), African-American (51 percent), multiracial (51 percent), and Middle Eastern (49 percent), experienced especially high rates of homelessness; Whereas transgender women of color are more likely to receive unequal treatment or service than White transgender people; Whereas transgender women have repeatedly stated that when police officers knew or thought they were transgender, the officers maliciously and frequently referred to them as the wrong gender, verbally harassed them, or physically attacked them; Whereas transgender women of color, including American Indian (74 percent), multiracial (71 percent), Latina (66 percent), and African-American (61 percent) respondents to the USTS were more likely to have experienced one or more forms of mistreatment; Whereas transgender women of color were more likely to report that an officer assumed they were sex workers, including African-American (33 percent), multiracial (30 percent), Latino (25 percent), American Indian (23 percent), and Asian (20 percent); and Whereas transgender women of color, including African-American (9 percent) and American Indian (6 percent) women, were more likely to have been incarcerated in the past year (Figure 14.11 of the U.S. Transgender Survey), than were respondents who had been homeless in the past year (7 percent): Now, therefore, be it