[12] Several recent studies - from Trans Equality - have shown that transgender individuals face discrimination within their own family units and schools, in employment and housing, within government settings, through hate crimes, and under the justice and legal systems.
"[15] High levels of stress have been caused by exclusion, discrimination, and lack of validation, and barriers to accessing healthcare have been created by social stigma and economic inequality, resulting in adverse mental health effects.
[23] Stryker argues that this means that they are largely unprotected when they are attacked in one way or another for being transgender, and it further alienates them from our definition of humanity, making them an "other," unrecognized by lawful protections and only seen as outsiders or deviants.
Even though President Obama passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009, this does not serve to remedy the many issues of the justice system in its unjust treatment transgender people.
[23] A young girl called Pat Doe, advocating for her own right to wear clothing that matched with her gender identity, was able to gain a favorable outcome in court by using GID to better articulate her argument.
This psychological designation also creates a paradox, which would prohibit the steps for remedying this disorder (living as the gender identity of choice, getting hormone treatment, and then surgery).
Stephen Whittle wrote the following description in his own work: "if you are distressed enough to qualify for surgery, your mental reasoning has been impaired to the point where you probably cannot give informed consent.
The court ruled against allowing a transgender person to change their original sex cited on their birth certificate to match the reassigned gender.
[30] Transgender workers can have a difficult time coping with the traditional workplace due to established gender norms that limit the roles perceived and expected of them.
[31] In 2012, former police detective and veteran Mia Macy was denied a ballistics technician position at the federal ATF laboratory because of her transgender identity.
[32] Furthermore, in law regarding to transgender discrimination in the workplace, the US Senate on 7 November 2013 gave final approval passing legislation actively outlawing private or public sector justification related to promotions, payment and hiring based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
[33] This is to recognize a more fair field in the workplace, noting credibility and achievements without being swayed by factors that not only fail to create direct relations to those aspects, but also ones that are vulnerable to prejudice from employees, employers and associates.
For example, in November 2013, Jeydon Loredo was temporarily excluded from the La Feria Independent School District yearbook in Texas due to sporting a tuxedo that did not meet "community standards."
One participant stated he "had hell on wheels being a gender variant student in the [community college] system, [as] there are no protections here and issues are dealt with quite poorly".
Anecdotal and research evidence suggest that transgender people often face verbal and physical assault and risk being questioned or even arrested by the police when they use gender-specific facilities (Coalition for Queer Action, 2001; San Francisco Human Rights Commission, 2001)."
The majority of the discussion in this section is based on findings from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, due to the extreme rarity of data available on this subject.
Intersectional approaches argue that the overlapping racial and gender identities of transgender people of color results in them experiencing even more oppression and discrimination.
This aligns with matrix of domination theory, which argues that sociological factors such as race and gender overlap and increase the degree of discrimination experienced by minority individuals.
One advocated approach is to work within the existing binary sex classification system and grant legal rights to transgender individuals based on their self-defined gender identity.
In one study, nearly 42% of transgender adults reported harassment of both verbal and physical variety as well as denial of fair and equal treatment at a doctor's office or hospital.
Though there are not many studies out there that focus on transgender health care, the ones that are happening show a lot of discrimination and unfair treatment in hospitals as well as doctors' offices.
[57] In addition, due to the rampant institutional and interpersonal discriminatory practices against transgender individuals of color, they often suffer mental health consequences from social and economic inequalities.
Because transgender people of color face double discrimination for their racial and gender identities, they are more likely to be denied jobs and fall into poverty, leaving them to careers of prostitution or other illegal dealings.
[51][52] A 2013 report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs found that members of racial minority groups who also identified as transgender were more likely to experience harassment and hate-motivated violence.
By being part of the same-sex acronym, trans individuals are rarely recognized as a unique group that requires its own specific agenda to obtain equality.
[69] Sex between members of the same gender has been legal nationwide in the United States since 2003 (Lawrence v. Texas), and marriage is currently recognized by the federal government.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would make discriminating against LGBT people in the workplace illegal, passed in the US Senate on 7 November 2013.
[70] In 2017, the Trump administration, through the Department of Justice, reversed the Obama-era policy which used Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to protect transgender employees from discrimination.
[74][75] Transgender individuals are often marginalized and encounter stigma and discrimination due to their sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions in various Asian countries.
[76] Public nuisance and vagrancy laws is used to unjustly abuse trans females in many parts of Asia, including Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal, Malaysia and the Philippines.