An Economic Argument to Save Transgender Lives

by Vaibhav Saini | January 1, 2020

With a 40% attempted suicide rate, and 31 murders reported between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019, transgender Americans are crying out for help. Because America behaves like a corporation, it treats its citizens as its employees. As a consequence, the canard continues that economic justification for justice garners bipartisan support. I set out to estimate the economic value of transgender Americans. Will it generate bipartisan support to save their lives?