A new video is out from In the Life Media featuring two transgender woman — Ja'briel from Hinesville, Ga., located just more than four hours south of Atlanta near Savannah, and Michelle, who is from Los Angeles — speaking out about the discrimination they face.

The video is being released to highlight the findings of the first national report on transgender discrimination released in February by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.

"Everything is kinda of taboo in the South and instead of trying to understand, people tend to go off hearsay … they tend to construct things in their minds an image of what they think a transgender person is," says Ja'briel, who is a school bus driver.

As an African-American trans woman in the rural South, Ja'briel said finding a job is also difficult.

“I went to school and earned a degree, but because of discrimination I’m limited in my employment options, and so it’s been very troubling to know that this is an extra burden on me financially and in other ways,” Ja’briel says.

"I took the approach laying low. But the older I got, the harder it became. It's too much of a war on the inside and I had to be free," she adds.

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality interviewed 6,450 transgender and gender non-conforming study participants from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Participants completed online or paper surveys.

Key findings include:

• All respondents faced some kind of discrimination "yet the combination of anti-transgender bias and persistent, structural racism was especially devastating. People of color in general fare worse than white participants across the board, with African American transgender respondents faring far worse than all others in most areas examined." Household income for the respondents in the study was four times more likely to have a household income of less than $10,000 a year compared to the general population.

• 41 percent of respondents reported attempting suicide compared to 1.6 percent of the general population, with rates rising for those who lost a job due to bias (55 percent), were harassed/bullied in school (51 percent), had low household income, or were the victim of
physical assault (61 percent) or sexual assault (64 percent).

The video is made by In the Life Media.

Top photo: Ja'briel of Hinesville, Ga., is featured in a video by In the Life Media that highlights the discrimination transgender people face.