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Torillian on 03 July 2020
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sundin13 said:
Immersiveunreality said:

Thats good.

And now you stop the extreme that people like you are so vulnerable of being beaten up,that is a rarity.

Violence against transgendered individuals is unfortunately fairly common. According to the US Transgender Survey (2015) about 9% of transgendered individuals reported being physically assaulted based on their transgender identity over the past year, and 13% of transgendered individuals reporting assault for any reason over the past year. This compares to about 1.5% of individuals in the general population being assaulted that same year, which indicates that transgendered individuals are over 8.5x more likely to be victims of assault, and the majority of that difference is because of transphobic violence.

Sources:

https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf

EDIT: Dammit, Torillian...

Gonna have to google faster than that if you want to beat me to a claim that can be easily disproven with math. Though I appreciate that you found the rate that the general population gets assaulted. Good call just finding assault claims I was trying to figure out how I would show what percentage of the general population report being physically assaulted within the last year to compare apples to apples but your comparison works better. 



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