Areaa | Survey Questions |
Health care | 1. Have you ever experienced discrimination by a doctor or health care professional due to your transgender status and/or gender expression? |
2. Have you ever been denied enrollment in a health insurance plan because of your transgender status? | |
Employment | 3. Have you ever been denied a job you applied for due to your transgender status and/or gender expression? |
4. Have you ever been fired from a job due to your employer’s reaction to your transgender status and/or gender expression? | |
Housing | 5. Have you ever lost housing or been denied a housing opportunity due to your transgender status and/or gender expression? |
6. Have you ever been denied a bed in a homeless shelter due to your transgender status and/or gender expression? |
We considered participants who responded “yes” to either of the 2 questions in each area to have experienced discrimination in that particular area and participants who answered “no” to both questions to have not.