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. 

Nearly half (48%) of all respondents in the sample reported being denied equal treatment, verbally harassed, and/or physically attacked in the past year because of being transgender.
• One in seven (14%) respondents reported that they were denied equal treatment or service in a public place in the past year because of being transgender.
• Nearly half (46%) of respondents reported that they were verbally harassed in the past year because of being transgender.
• Nearly one in ten (9%) respondents reported that they were physically attacked in the past year because of being transgender.
Nearly half (47%) of respondents have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime.
One in ten (10%) respondents in the survey were sexually assaulted in the past year.
More than half (54%) of respondents experienced some form of intimate partner violence.
• More than one-third (35%) experienced physical violence by an intimate partner, compared to 30% of the U.S. adult population. Nearly one-quarter (24%) experienced severe physical violence by a current or former partner, compared with 18% of the U.S. population.

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

Didn't know that having a preference is being transphobic and racist.You learn something new every day.

Wouldn't that make you racist and prejudiced then, simply because you don't accept the way I think( and label me as such in a negative way), especially when I and many other have nothing against anyone?

Edit: About the bolded - Thank god we have the mod team we have. I may disagree with them every now and again, but they are all level headed. This is very different from Resetera, where it#s a hive mind and any vestige of Freedom of Speech and just common sense is tried to be wiped away.

Your talk just pointed out what is wrong with all this stupid movement: You guys don't care about whats right or wrong. You just want to everyone to accept your own view of the worldf, and the ones that don't should be banned the right to speak up. And this forum and countless others proves just that: It dosen't matter that you are gay, bi or straight, all opinions are respected, as long as you don't outright attack an user.

Everyone has sexual preferences and I never denied that.

I called you on for defining people in a way they don't want to be defined. I never called you racist, I have no reason to.

Yes I think you are prejudiced, if you think gendering people based on your attraction is okay, it's not, and it causes prejudice to people. 

That's like saying ugly women are not women lol.

Prejudiciable view of the world lead, as implied,, to prejudice, in this case, to my peers. As such, I have a duty, as someone that educated themself on the subject for earlier stated reason, to educate people who propagate misconceptions.

I wouldn't call people asking for civic rights and basic human understanding "stupid".

We don't want to impose our worldview, we are just fighting for a right to be the one to define ourselves.

You are awfully defensive btw, everyone argued in a civil way despite the agressivness you perceived.

(Formating went wrong, big sorry. Also my terrible english, but it's friday night and i'm tired)

@bolded absolutely and I don't have a perfect solution - neither does JK Rowling or anyone else really, but surely she has a right to voice her opinion on something she feels directly impacted on, without getting cancelled?

That being said my initial premise is based primarily on physical differences. Provided that a transwomen has not undergone any medical alterations, he/she is better equipped to handle an immediate physical threat, as is any biological man. I think we can all agree which is the more vulnerable biological gender given history. So it makes zero sense to me, when we are living in a world that is actively fighting GBV, to start adding in disclaimers that would literally allow anyone to walk into any bathroom. As of right now society by and large adheres to biological acceptance of who is allowed in which toilet - which at the very least creates some sense of safety for biological woman.

To your last sentence, perhaps this seems like a small thing to people who live in first world countries, but in third world countries it can rapidly devolve into a disaster mascarading behind "social justice". First world countries, perhaps have the luxury of coming of with decent solutions to this - adding additional bathrooms etc.

It didn't occur to me, that's a fair point.

However, the toilet argument is the least important and insteresting part of transgenderism. For trans' peeps, the biggest problem in toilets is fearing for your life, but it's kind of the same as anywhere else, in a more vulnerable and certainly uncomfortable way. But the problem is violent radical exclusive people in this case.

From my experience in workplaces, I mostly go to the toilet after I confirmed it's completely empty, and I use the least popular one (In my previous workplace, I loved the men's bathroom, there were 35 women for 4 men -including both bosses lol-). Some trans peeps avoid public toilets but for woman and amab nbs on anti-androgens it's pretty hard (you have to pee like, every 20 minutes, not that it changed anything for me). I have, every single time, been invited to use women's bathroom by my female coworkers. I have a lot of luck and everyone is supportive, and have never had any bad bathroom experiences.

Another problem is, women and queers are more likely to be physically abused. So queer women suffer from intersectionnality. Especially sex workers and PoC. And I think it's pretty sad for women and transwomen to fight like this, when they should help each other.

I'm not really "advocating" for anything. I am stating what the current norms and laws are in most places I've been to and if we were to change them it would be disastrous - at least in some regions of the world. I would even go as far as to state all regions of the world, as most countries have poorer areas with a general lack of security and safety.

I guess currently these norms are handled by the public and society - if there are a group of guys hanging out in a female toilet, anyone can go and complain to security etc. It can easily be handled. But if all those guys are legally allowed to randomly claim that they identify as female nobody can do anything about it. That shift in reality is logically worse than the current status quo.

You pose this assertion of disastrous consequences without any proof or evidence that such disastrous consequences would occur. Further, in areas where we have already seen individuals be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice, the have been no disastrous consequences, which should invalidate this argument, yet I still see it made commonly.

And again:

"The potential for abuse by cis men goes both ways. If individuals are allowed access to bathrooms based on gender identity, a cis man could claim to be a trans woman and enter the bathroom. On the other hand, if individuals are allowed access to bathrooms based on their gender assigned at birth, a cis man could claim to be a trans man and enter the bathroom. Either way the potential for abuse exists. This is one of the reasons why there hasn't been any noted increase in such crimes in areas where individuals are allowed to choose their bathroom based on gender identity."

Laws restricting bathroom use do not protect people. They put transgendered individuals in harms way, and we do not see any tangible benefits. There is no trade-off here. Laws restricting bathroom use are harmful.

Pretending to be trans' is a myth. Hormones make cis people go crazy, dressing as the other popular gender is ridiculed and automatically laughed at.

The problem with doubting claims is that it's all we have. Self perceived identity can't be proven or disproven.

And really, bathroom don't need laws to change. Just people to be more accepting, at most, but again, from my priviledged perspective, it's pretty chill rn.

Edit: this is trash written from my perspectives. Transmen have it worse. Like real worse. Being identified as AFaB in a bar's men bathroom is litterally life threatening.