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Being Trans in the EU – Comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey dataFigure 17: Openness about being trans at secondary school, by identity group (%)EU trans average781353Trans women85934Trans men681977Female cross dressersMale cross dressers66842594 55 3NeverRarelyOftenTransgender801163AlwaysGender variant90721Queer/other702073Question:Base:0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100C9. During your schooling before the age of 18, did you ... – A. Openly talk about you being transgender at school?Response categories as listed in the figure (category ‘Does not apply to me’ excluded).Trans respondents in the EU LGBT survey who felt the question applied to their situation.Source: FRA, EU LGBT survey, 2012Figure 18: Openness about being trans at school, by identity group (%)EU trans average3 27 70Trans women3 19 78Trans men6 34 60Female cross dressersMale cross dressersTransgender4 44 521 23 763 26 72Generally openSelectively openGenerally closedGender variant116 83Queer/other2 39 58Question:Base:0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100C9. During your schooling before the age of 18, did you ... – A. Openly talk about you being transgender at school? – B. Hideor disguise that you were transgender at school? Response categories: never, rarely, often, always, does not apply to me –recoded into the categories as in the figure (respondents answering ‘Does not apply to me’ were excluded).Trans respondents in the EU LGBT survey who felt the question applied to their situation.Source: FRA, EU LGBT survey, 2012measures toward equality at work are more widespreadthan positive measure in schools or that – as explainedearlier – people may not be ready to express their transidentity at an earlier age (Figure 19).Those who are currently in paid work report considerablymore often that they were generally closed insecondary school than those who are currently not inpaid work. In addition, those respondents who havecompleted higher education report significantly moreoften that they were generally closed at secondaryschool than respondents with less than higher education.The same tendency regards income: the higher theincome quartile, the more likely the respondents were38