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Transgender EuroStudy:
Legal Survey and Focus on the
Transgender Experience of Health Care
Comparison by occupation
100
82
80
60
40
20
0
85
unskilled
skilled
We can see from Chart 12 that the vast majority of respondents were refused State funding for
hormones, with more respondents who transitioned less than 5 years ago being refused than those
who transitioned more than 10 years ago. This is a worrying finding as the assumption would be that
access to funding for treatment would be improving.
A slightly higher percentage of those in skilled occupations reported a refusal than those in
unskilled occupations and there was only a minor improvement of 5% for those who were on an
income of €50,000 or more. These findings demonstrate that access to funding for hormones affects
trans people across the income and occupational spectrum.
State Funding for Surgery
The second question was concerned with State funding for AB surgeries. These were the
minimum acceptable surgeries that the research team agreed were required for trans people to live in
their acquired gender. 62 For FTMs this was Mastectomy and MTFs this was Vaginoplasty.
Chart 12: Percentage of Respondents Who Were Refused State
Funding for AB Surgery
62
These Acceptable
Baselines were not easy
to determine. Not all
trans people want
surgery and some trans
people feel that they
need to have all the
surgery possible in
order to live their lives
to the full in their
acquired gender. The
decisions for ABs were
based on knowledge of
the primary surgeries
that MTFs and FTMs
need in order to begin
living more comfortably
in their acquired
gender.
Comparison by when transitioned
100
80
60
40
20
0
83
89
Comparison by earnings
100
80
60
40
20
0
86 87
> 10 years
> 5 years
> € 20.000
> € 50.000