Close to 80% of children who feel transsexual will abandon their sexual confusion as they age.
Transsexuals are twice as likely to be unemployed as the general population.
Transsexuals are four times more likely to live in extreme poverty than the general population.
Transsexuals have higher rates of unemployment, homelessness, and attempted suicide than normal people.
Transsexuals have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, prostitution, and incarceration than normal people.
Transsexuals are several times more likely than normal people to have schizophrenia.
27% of MtF transsexuals test positive for HIV. Only 12% report it.
Transsexuals are more likely to have autism than the general population.
44% of transsexuals show signs of clinical depression.
85% of transsexuals show signs of psychological distress or have been recently treated for mental health.
1/3 transsexuals are being treated for mental health.
20-40% of homeless children are transsexuals.
Gay and transgender students are half as likely to graduate high school as straight students.
16% of transsexuals have been sent to jail or prison, compared to 2.7% of the general population.
53% of mothers of transsexual children have Borderline Personality Disorder, compared to only 6% of mothers of normal children.
Only 1% of transsexuals can sucessfully pass as the opposite gender.
28% of FTM transsexuals have tried and failed to commit suicide.
47% of MTF transsexuals have tried and failed to commit suicide.
Source: National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS)