All Trans People Want To Live In A World Free Of Prejudice And Discrimination
Where Trans People Can Thrive In A Free And Equal Society!
About Us
Mission
The Transgender Awareness Project advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people and their lives. In Jacksonville and throughout the State, TAP works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.
Vision
TAP fights for a society in which transgender people not only survive, but thrive, with accepting families and communities, full self-determination over their identities and bodies, and freedom from disrespect, discrimination and violence. For this vision to become a reality, we must also create equity, equal opportunity, safety, health, and economic well-being for all people over their entire lifetimes.
What We Fight For
Nearly half (46%) of respondents were verbally harassed in the past year because of being transgender.
Nearly one in ten (9%) respondents were physically attacked in the past year because of being transgender.
Nearly half (47%) of respondents were sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime and one in ten (10%) were sexually assaulted in the past year. In communities of color, these numbers are higher: 53% of Black respondents were sexually assaulted in their lifetime and 13% were sexually assaulted in the last year.
72% of respondents who have done sex work, 65% of respondents who have experienced homelessness, and 61% of respondents with disabilities reported being sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
More than half (54%) experienced some form of intimate partner violence, including acts involving coercive control and physical harm.
https://vawnet.org/sc/serving-trans-and-non-binary-survivors-domestic-and-sexual-violence/violence-against-trans-and
If it’s not too much who would remember
Paige Mahogany-Parks