Editing Transphobia (section)

===From government===
{{See also|Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States}}

[[Voter identification laws in the United States]] often impact transgender individuals' ability to vote, since many lack photo identification with their current name and gender.<ref name="Holder2020">{{cite news |last=Holder |first=Sarah |date=27 October 2020 |title=How Transgender Voters Are Fighting to Make Their Votes Count |work=Bloomberg Citylab |publisher=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/transgender-voters-face-new-election-fears |access-date=21 January 2022}}</ref>

Prisons frequently make no attempt to accommodate transgender individuals, assigning them to facilities using only the criteria of genitalia, which is believed to contribute to the pervasiveness of prison rape with regards to transgender women. Prison staff have been noted to frequently deny trans women privileges disproportionately, and the Eighth Amendment right for an individual not to be given cruel or unusual punishment has historically not been liberally enforced in cases involving transgender inmates.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Erni|first=John Nguyet|title=Legitimating Transphobia|date=Jan 2013|url=|journal=Cultural Studies|volume=27|issue=1|pages=136–159|doi=10.1080/09502386.2012.722305|s2cid=147546970}}</ref>

In July 2023, Russia enacted a law which had, among other measures, banned gender-affirming healthcare for all transgender people regardless of age and had also banned them from adopting children.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=MacFarquhar |first1=Neil |last2=Birger |first2=Georgy |date=1 August 2023 |title=Putin's Crackdown Leaves Transgender Russians Bracing for Worse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/europe/russia-transgender-ban.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215223925/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/europe/russia-transgender-ban.html |archive-date=15 December 2023 |access-date=11 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Transgender people also face the denial of [[right of asylum]] or inhuman treatment in process of asylum-seeking.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/LGBTQI-Refugee-Review-Jul-2022.pdf |title=LGBTQI+ REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS A Review of Research and Data Needs |last1=Shaw |first1=Ari |last2=Verghese |first2=Namrata |date=June 2022 |publisher=[[Williams Institute]] |access-date=}}</ref>