No not that type of jiving but rather correlation between numbers. A couple of days ago I wrote about the results of the 2015 Transgender Survey for Connecticut (here and here). If you remember around 20 percent of those responding to the survey from Connecticut said they have been discriminated against on the job, 17% said that with housing and around 30% said that about in public accommodation.
The survey results said that there were 319 respondents from Connecticut, so 20% of them would make 62 people said they were discriminated against; well the numbers are out for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) cases from the last year (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017).
I don’t think we will ever know all the reasons but I can think of some off the top of my head.
First, when you file a complaint it becomes a matter of public record and I think many trans people shy away from filing a complaint because of that… you will definitely be OUTED!
Next, the trans person could have felt it wasn’t worth the time to file a claim, they just moved on with their lives.
Another reason is that they might have settled the discrimination case another way besides filling a complaint such as arbitration.
It could also be because of the survey, since the survey was a quantitative survey using the Likert scale in some questions while in other questions it was just a simple yes or no. This was an online survey so the answers that were given are based on the respondent interpretation of the questions, and when the question asks yes or no to “Have you ever been harassed in a public accommodation?” the range could be from just being starred at to being yelled at or even thrown out of the building. Therefore, the answers that were given are based on the respondent interpretation of the questions.
So there could be many reasons why the numbers don’t jibe but what I think is important is that filing a CHRO complaint is just a part of the tools we have at our disposal.
The survey results said that there were 319 respondents from Connecticut, so 20% of them would make 62 people said they were discriminated against; well the numbers are out for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) cases from the last year (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017).
Gender Identity: 7 cases in employment, 1 case in housing, and 3 cases in public accommodationWell that is a lot less cases than reported be trans people in the survey, so why the difference?
I don’t think we will ever know all the reasons but I can think of some off the top of my head.
First, when you file a complaint it becomes a matter of public record and I think many trans people shy away from filing a complaint because of that… you will definitely be OUTED!
Next, the trans person could have felt it wasn’t worth the time to file a claim, they just moved on with their lives.
Another reason is that they might have settled the discrimination case another way besides filling a complaint such as arbitration.
It could also be because of the survey, since the survey was a quantitative survey using the Likert scale in some questions while in other questions it was just a simple yes or no. This was an online survey so the answers that were given are based on the respondent interpretation of the questions, and when the question asks yes or no to “Have you ever been harassed in a public accommodation?” the range could be from just being starred at to being yelled at or even thrown out of the building. Therefore, the answers that were given are based on the respondent interpretation of the questions.
So there could be many reasons why the numbers don’t jibe but what I think is important is that filing a CHRO complaint is just a part of the tools we have at our disposal.
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