Editing Transphobia (section)

===In healthcare===
{{See also|Healthcare and the LGBT community}}
A study of 81 transgender people in [[Philadelphia]] found 14% said they had been refused routine medical care because they were transgender. 18% answered 'yes' when asked if, when they went in for a check-up, "being transgender created a problem" for them.<ref name="Bockting-2006" />

Additionally, a study of 223 healthcare providers indicated a correlation between transphobia and decreased performance on survey questions regarding the treatment of transgender patients, with no significant correlation to the amount of time spent learning about transgender health, leading researchers to state that "broader efforts to address transphobia in society in general, and in medical education in particular, may be required to improve the quality of medical care for [transgender and gender diverse] patients."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Stroumsa|first1=Daphna|last2=Shires|first2=Deirdre A|last3=Richardson|first3=Caroline R|last4=Jaffee|first4=Kim D|last5=Woodford|first5=Michael R|date=21 January 2019|title=Transphobia rather than education predicts provider knowledge of transgender health care|url=|journal=Medical Education|volume=53|issue=4|pages=398–407|doi=10.1111/medu.13796|pmid=30666699|hdl=2027.42/148342|s2cid=58643722|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

In the United States–based [[National Center for Transgender Equality|National Center For Transgender Equality]]'s 2011 survey, 19% of respondents reported being [[Omission (criminal law)#Failure to provide medical treatment|refused medical care]] due to their transgender or gender non-conforming status,<ref>{{cite web|title=Injustice at Every Turn A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey |url=http://transequality.org/PDFs/Executive_Summary.pdf |publisher=transequality.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112122305/http://transequality.org/PDFs/Executive_Summary.pdf |archive-date=12 November 2013 }}</ref> such as [[Robert Eads]], who died of ovarian cancer after being refused treatment by more than two dozen doctors due to fears that taking him on as a patient might harm their practice,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ftminfo.net/sundance.html |title=FTM Informational Network |access-date=24 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509154651/http://www.ftminfo.net/sundance.html |archive-date=9 May 2008 }}</ref> or [[Tyra Hunter]], who was involved in an automobile accident; when [[Emergency medical services|rescue workers]] discovered she was transgender, they backed away and stopped administering treatment. She later died in a hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.glaa.org/archive/1998/margiehunter1211.shtml|title=Victory in Tyra Hunter case<!--Bot-generated title-->|access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref>

In many European countries, laws require that any transgender person who wishes to change their [[legal gender]] must first be [[Sterilization (medicine)|sterilized]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Pazulka|first=Nicole|title=17 European Countries Force Transgender Sterilization|url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/most-european-countries-force-sterilization-transgender-people-map|access-date=24 August 2013}}</ref> Sweden repealed [[Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden|its law]] in December 2012,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nelson |first=Rebecca |title=Transgender People in Sweden No Longer Face Forced Sterilization |url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/14/transgender-people-in-sweden-no-longer-face-forced-sterilization/ |magazine=Time |date=14 January 2013 |access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref> and the European Court of Human Rights struck down such laws in 2017.<ref>Liam Stack, ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/world/europe/european-court-strikes-down-required-sterilization-for-transgender-people.html European Court Strikes Down Required Sterilization for Transgender People]'' (12 April 2017)</ref>