Trans model Munroe Bergdorf details horrific rape at hands of stalker
nypost.com“Loose Women” on Wednesday, where she talked candidly about the incident, which occurred at the beginning of her transition about a decade ago. “I was locked in a room for two hours and raped,” Bergdorf stated. “I was stalked for six hours before.
I met him on a night out and then he found where I lived and where I worked and raped me very badly.”She further told the “Loose Women” presenters: “It just sent me on a really dark trajectory because there was no help and socially and culturally things have gotten worse and we are being painted as the people you should be looking out for when really we are all being affected with misogyny and violence against women.”Bergdorf — who is also an outspoken activist — said she believed the rape occurred because men had been taught to “demonize” transgender women by society at large.“I had this encounter because society demonizes our bodies so much to the point where men who find us attractive are being fed that it is so wrong that they do it in secret and often enact sexual violence on us,” she stated.
The British star didn’t disclose whether she reported the man to the police or whether he has been charged in relation to the assault.
According to the UCLA School of Law, trans people are over four times more likely than their cisgender counterparts to experience “violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault.”The Human Right Commission reports that at least 34 transgender and gender non-conforming people were killed in the US in 2022 alone, in what they described as “an epidemic of violence.”“Black and brown trans people face significantly higher rates of harassment, bias and physical violence,” HRC’s Jay Brown stated.
