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Being Trans in the EU – Comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey dataFigure 8: Openness about being trans at work in the last five years, by identity group (%)EU trans average3615 9 1327Trans women3117 14344Trans men402419 15 2Female cross dressers4921 7 6 16Male cross dressers4418 6 9 24Transgender5019 13 15 3Gender variant7014 4 5 7Queer/other 20 11 6 658NeverRarelyOftenAlwaysDoes not applyto me0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100Question: C8A. During your employment in the last 5 years, have you …. - A. Been open about you being transgender at work?Base: Trans respondents in the EU LGBT survey who were employed in the last five years.Source: FRA, EU LGBT survey, 2012well: whether or not respondents have specificallyhidden or disguised their identity at work. Of all transrespondents, 46 % indicate that they often or alwayshide or disguise their trans background at work.To facilitate further analysis, replies on being open andon hiding or disguising were categorised into threegroups: those who are generally open about their transidentity at work (always open and never or rarely hidingbeing trans at work), those who are generally closeted(never open about being trans and often or always disguisingbeing trans at work), and the rest, who are openselectively (Figure 9).This analysis shows that only 16 % of all trans respondentswho were employed in the five years preceding thesurvey were generally open at work. Two in five wereselectively open (40 %) or generally closed (44 %),respectively. Trans women are the most likely of allidentity groups to be generally open and the least likelyto be generally closed. Cross dressers and gender variantrespondents are the most likely to be generally closedand the least likely to be generally open. Although beingopen increases with age, even in the respondent groupaged 55 and above, only one in three (29 %) is generallyopen about being trans at work.The more their country of residence adopts widespreadpositive measures to promote respect for the humanrights of trans persons, the more respondents tend to begenerally open at work and the less they are generallyclosed. When positive measures are very widespread(based on the view of the survey respondents), onlyone in five trans respondents stay generally closed atwork, whereas one in two stay generally closed at workwhen positive measures are very rare (Figure 10).Figure 9: Openness about being trans at work, by identity group (%)EU trans average164044Trans women323830Trans men154738Female cross dressers84844Generally openMale cross dressers103554Selectively openTransgender153946Generally closedGender variant52570Queer/other1449370 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100Question: C8A. During your employment in the last 5 years, have you …. - A. Been open about you being transgender at work? -B. Hidden or disguised that you are transgender at work? Response categories: never, rarely, often, always, does notapply to me – recoded into the categories as in the figure.Base:Trans respondents in the EU LGBT survey who were employed in the last five years. Those who responded ‘Does not applyto me’ were excluded from this calculation.Source: FRA, EU LGBT survey, 201230