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Transgender EuroStudy:
Legal Survey and Focus on the
Transgender Experience of Health Care
Comparison by occupation
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80
60
40
20
0
34 34
unskilled
skilled
Chart 14 shows that nearly one third of the respondents from all the selected groups are
reporting that they were refused treatment because a practitioner did not approve of gender
reassignment. There is also only an improvement of 9% for the respondents who transitioned less than
5 years ago. There is no difference at all between those who were in skilled or unskilled occupations,
but a difference of 17% in the comparisons across salaries, with a markedly smaller number of those
on a higher income reporting a refusal.
A survey respondent in Italy wrote:
My GP stopped writing my prescriptions (not hormones) and advised me to find another doctor
because he didn’t approve of my transition.
Further Analysis of Those Who Were Refused
Who Paid for Treatment Themselves
We asked respondents if they had ever been refused, or made to wait far longer than expected,
for any treatment relating to transgender or transsexual health care, including gender reassignment,
after appropriate clinical recommendation. We then added a filter to determine those who had been
refused and then paid themselves. This filter was applied across the different groups.
Chart 14: Percentage of Respondents Who Were Refused
Treatment and Paid Themselves
Comparison by when transitioned
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80
60
40
20
0
60
54
> 10 years
> 5 years