June 7, 2024 - Without this understanding, Jules says, we can never move beyond awareness into liberation for trans femme people.At a time when legislative attacks on trans people are at an all-time high and a pernicious focus on their lives and healthcare dominates public discourse, this question and exploration ...

May 13, 2019 - As always, listening to and believing ... verbally harassed in the past year because of being transgender. Nearly one in ten (9%) respondents were physically attacked in the past year because of being transgender....

November 27, 2024 - The study found 86.1 attacks for every 1,000 transgender women and 23.7 attacks for every 1,000 cisgender women; it also found 107.5 attacks for every 1,000 transgender men and 19.8 attacks for every 1,000 cisgender men. Transgender women who are sex workers experience a disproportionately ...

December 21, 2022 - Transgender people were as likely as cisgender people to report violence to police. “Research has shown that experiences of victimization are related to low well-being, including suicide thoughts and attempts,” said study author Ilan H. Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy ...

November 16, 2024 - But what we do know is that every ... of trans people, we’ve seen an increase. But the way I think we should frame it is — one person murdered is one person too many. We’re currently in this time of LGBT formal equality. The troubled language of “full citizenship” is used to make it seem like transgender communities are no longer living through contiguous harm. Yet, at this same time, along with the waves of anti-trans legislation, we still see these vicious attacks...

December 16, 2022 - At least 53 trans people were lost to violence since November 2022. This report emphasizes the need to broaden the perspective on gender identity and expression and ensure the memorialization of all lost community members.

June 21, 2022 - Statistics documenting transgender people's experience of sexual violence indicate shockingly high levels of sexual abuse and assault. One in two transgender individuals are sexually abused or assaulted at some point in their lives.1 Some reports estimate that transgender survivors may experience ...

January 17, 2024 - The Human Rights Campaign is both ... people whose lives were tragically and inhumanely taken through violent means, including gun and intimate partner violence, in 2024. Since 2013, the Human Rights Campaign has tracked incidents of fatal trans violence— the same year the Federal Bureau ...

November 20, 2024 - Against this backdrop of discriminatory legislation, attacks on the transgender and gender-expansive community, as well as the LGBTQ+ community and its allies, are on the rise. Proponents of anti-trans legislation in state houses and Congress have often relied on hate-filled rhetoric that demonizes transgender people ...

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1 week ago - Alongside the rhetoric about the “threat” of trans thirteen-year-olds playing field hockey, Trump and Congressional leadership have aggressively attacked gender-affirming medical care for transgender adolescents. Throughout the 2024 Presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly suggested that ...

March 30, 2022 - This year, we saw a shocking spate of transphobic attacks in Liverpool and across other UK cities during Pride Month. This showcases the continued need for our vital reporting services and advocacy support to be there for people affected by Transphobic hate incidents and crimes. We want to encourage and reassure the trans community to come forward with their experiences so that we can fight against transphobia together. With your collective support we can ensure that no one ...

September 26, 2024 - In 2018, transgender people reportedly experienced 479 violence incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2019, Amnesty International published a report indicated Shama, a transgender journalist, was raped by nine men in one of Pakistan's cities, Peshawar. In September 2020, a prominent transgender activist Gul Panra, was shot six times. Nayyab Ali was allegedly sexually assaulted and attacked ...

September 30, 2024 - Every year without exception, over two dozen transgender people are killed. Nearly three in four of these homicides are committed with a gun. In order to better understand the link …

July 13, 2023 - Following recent deaths of trans women and attacks on other members of the LGBTIQ community in Europe, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) calls on EU Member States to tackle violence and effectively protect all trans and LGBTIQ people.

April 21, 2021 - Those concerns come as crimes against transgender people jumped 20% in 2019, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2019). A British survey (Galop, 2020) showed that about 80% of respondents in the trans community reported they had suffered from transphobic hate crimes. Research related to young adults in the U.S. indicate that more than three in five transgender youth reported they were attacked ...

February 18, 2022 - Committees consider policy issues, scrutinise government work, expenditure, and examine proposals for primary and secondary legislation.

November 13, 2019 - These guidelines apply to all stories ... has been attacked or killed. The following illustrations are based on a fictional example of a person who was assigned male at birth and given the name John Smith, but who was a transgender woman who was named Rachel Smith at the time she was killed. Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender ...

April 28, 2023 - We’re experiencing an unprecedented surge in attacks on trans people in particular, and trans kids most specifically.In Missouri, the attorney general announced new restrictions on trans healthcare that are the first of their kind, limiting care for both kids AND adults.

December 6, 2024 - Just like Congress at the federal level, every state has a legislative body responsible for passing laws that impact their state residents. While some states have been at the forefront of advancing LGBTQ equality, state-level attacks on LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people, have escalated ...