A recent study reveals that 80 per cent of transgender respondents have experienced some form of abuse from a partner or ex-partner.
The findings were released by the LGBT Domestic Abuse Project and the Scottish Transgender Alliance, who conducted the research.
Figures show that nearly half of respondents – 45 per cent – had experienced physical abuse from a partner or ex-partner. 47 per cent said they had experienced sexual abuse from a partner or ex-partner.
However only 60% identified these behaviours as domestic abuse.
PinkPaper.com: 80% of trans people suffer abuse at home, says report
Despite the high figures, 24% of people had told no one about the abuse they had experienced. …
The LGBT Domestic Abuse Project and the Scottish Transgender Alliance are set to launch new research, at the end of the month, that looks specifically at transgender people’s experiences of domestic abuse.
A spokesperson for transgender charity the Gender Trust told DIVA: “We applaud the work that LGBT Domestic Abuse Project, the Scottish Transgender Alliance and GIRES are doing in highlighting the issue of the high levels of violence experienced by trans people – something which we have sadly known to be on the rise for quite some time.”
Author:
Paris Lees
Editorial comment:
THE one big difference between transgender and transsexual people and intersex people is that a great many intersex people are subjected to extreme forms of violence from birth.
From birth, not just when their difference becomes expressed and obvious later in life.
IGM – infant genital mutilation – is an extreme form of violence designed to erase the very fact that intersex exists and that the newborn in question was born intersex.
The extreme violence continues when an intersex newborn is subjected to gender conforming brainwashing to make their behaviour fit the sex that they were forcibly assigned. And the violence continues throughout our lives, at many different hands and in many different forms.
It can be argued that the violence intersex people are subjected to in all its many and various manifestation is far beyond that which transsexual and transgender people are subjected to.
That is why it is distressing to see that intersex people are, apparently, yet again, excluded aka “not included” – for the benefit of those who insist on ideological correctness – from this study.
Yes, Scottish Transgender Alliance, we have read your website and understand that you include intersex in your ambit. But you and we know that intersex is not transgender nor a subset of transgender and that LGBT does not include I for intersex and that none of this effective erasure is doing much if anything to raise public and government consciousness about intersex and the extreme oppressions we are subjected to.
We hope therefore that your coming research helps to compensate for this.
