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LGBTQ+ facts and figures
An overview of the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people in various aspects of life, including health, community, employment, education, and sport, as adequately as from an international perspective.
- Health
- One in eight LGBT people (13%) have experienced some form of unequal treatment from healthcare staff because they’re LGBT.
- Almost one in four LGBT people (23%) hold witnessed discriminatory or negative remarks against LGBT people by healthcare staff.
- One in seven LGBT people (14%) have avoided treatment for verb of discrimination because they’re LGBT.
- Seven in ten trans people (70%) report being impacted by transphobia when accessing general health services.
- Nearly half of trans people (45%) said that their GP did not have a good understanding of their needs as a trans person, rising to over half of non-binary people (55%).
- 90% of trans people reported experiencing delays when seeking transition-related healthcare.
- Trans people of colour also experienced transphobia from trans-specific healthcare providers at more than double the rate of wh
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