Trans people face endemic sexual violence. Under Trump, it could get worse
The human cost of Trump’s culture wars are impossible to ignore as vital protections are stripped away from trans people. TW: This article contains mentions of transphobia, transphobic violence and sexual assault.
One of the cruelest tricks in the transphobic toolkit? Framing trans people as some invincible, mythical threat to cis safety.
Trans folks aren’t a danger to cis society, it’s very much the other way around. Research suggests that between 50 and 66 per cent of trans people experience some for of sexual abuse or sexual assault in their lifetime.
Trans people are four times more likely to be the victim of violent crime than cis people. The political pressure to exclude trans women from single-sex spaces is justified by erasing both their humanity and their lived experience – as women, and as people especially vulnerable to violence themselves.
