1. Zoe Brain Zoe Brain Australia says:

    The recent survey of Transgendered people, the largest ever conducted in the USA with over 6,500 respondents, had this to say:

    "Discrimination in health care and poor health outcomes were frequently experienced by respondents. 19% reported being refused care due to bias against transgender or gender-nonconforming people, with this figure even higher for respondents of color."

    There was the same rate of having been physically assaulted (6%) in hospital ER rooms, doctors surgeries, and department stores.

    Our concern is not so much about provision of gender-neutral restrooms, it's whether if we're taken to an ER after a car crash, we'll be allowed to bleed out.

    "Tyra Hunter (1970 – August 7, 1995) was an African-American transsexual woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident and was refused medical care. Emergency medical technicians at the scene of the accident uttered derogatory epithets and withdrew medical care after discovering her biological sex, and ER staff at DC General Hospital subsequently provided dilatory and inadequate care."

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