Want to know what transgender rights look like in the US? There’s a map for that.

(Maps courtesy of Vocativ)

Vocativ and the National Center for Transgender Equality have put together this handy — somewhat horrifying — map series about the state of transgender rights in the US, state by state. 

They picked five policy categories, “five key, measurable areas that provide an overview of the state of transgender rights in the United States: identity documents, anti-discrimination protections in schools and the workplace, health care and hate crime laws.”

 Then they created a map that allows you to see which states protect rights in those categories. Which states, for example, have laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender expression? (hint: not a whole hell of a lot.) Which states have anti-bullying laws designed to protect students based on gender identity? Which have nondiscrimination laws designed to protect students based on gender identity? Which have both? Which have neither?

“Clicking through the categories, one thing becomes clear,” conclude Luke Malone and EJ Fox at Vocativ. “Very few states, those on the West Coast notwithstanding, have implemented laws that offer some, if any, protections for trans people. California is the only state that provides full protections in all five categories.”

As Malone and Fox point out, the dispiriting state of policy around transgender rights, and access to those rights, comes at a time of unprecedented visibility — positive visibility — for transgender Americans. They point to Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, and to the new show Transparent, as examples of what TIME recently called “the transgender tipping point.”

But as Jos argued earlier this year, even when some additional rights are provided, even when the state of policy becomes marginally less dispiriting, the on-the-ground reality of transgender lives — and deaths — shouldn’t be allowed to slip from our minds: “We can’t let this provision of rights distract from the terrible reality faced by too many trans women of color. It might be tempting to take a step back from the fight now that I’ve been given the basic right of healthcare. But the enemy of trans liberation is systemic – it is a cissexist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy – and the provision of rights will not undo this system.” In June alone — Pride month — four transgender women were murdered. “The epidemic of violence targeting trans women of color, playing out while LGBT folks should supposedly be celebrating our pride, should stop us all cold, and make us think seriously about what’s really needed to win liberation for all trans people,” Jos wrote at the time. It was true then, and it’s true now.

Vocativ and the NCTE have done a great job at helping us to visualize how tenuous and patchworked the rights of transgender Americans continue to be — and how utterly nonexistent they are in many states. There’s an awful lot of grey on those maps. But this effort to demonstrate how unprotected we’ve left this slice of our society would have been aided by maps showing the extent of violence against transgender Americans. Rights are crucial, obviously — but you have to be alive to enjoy them.

Check out the rest of the maps here.

Chloe Angyal came out of the womb opinionated.