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Transgender people twice as likely to be victim of crime

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 17/07/2020 20:32

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2020

This publication reports on experiences of crime by the victim’s gender identity for the first time, after a new question on gender identity was trialed in the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) from 1 October 2019 to 18 March 2020. The data show those people whose gender identity is different from their sex registered at birth were twice as likely (28%) to be a victim of crime (excluding fraud) than those whose gender identity is the same as their sex registered at birth (14%) in the year ending March 2020.

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feetfreckles · 17/07/2020 20:52

Answer my own question 63 individuals identified as trans , about 0.2%, giving crime figures lower reliability for this group

high rate for lesbians also , really shows how intolerant a society we are in, and extreme evidence in a way of how strictly gender norms are enforced

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/07/2020 20:52

I'd love to have a look at the confounding variables.

Mental health
Sex at birth
Age
Trauma history
Occupation ( notably sex work)

nellodee · 17/07/2020 20:47

I don't think it's unlikely that transgender people suffer more crime. People in general are bigoted bastards. The report says that 21% of gay people reported a crime, 25% of transgender. Given that the younger you are, the more likely you are to be a victim of crime, and that transgender people are probably younger on average, I think that its likely that there are a similar amount of violent transphobes as violent homophobes. I think it's probable that they are actually the same people. I also think it's very unlikely that many of them are middle aged women hanging out on Mumsbet.

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feetfreckles · 17/07/2020 20:44

34000 people surveyed. How many transgender people do they get in that survey?

fruitbrewhaha · 17/07/2020 20:44

They have extrapolated that figure from a base of 63 so it's reliability is questionable.

Does this include the crimes of misgendering or wrongthink?

Sicario · 17/07/2020 20:39

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nellodee · 17/07/2020 20:36

Christians were less likely to have experienced crime than atheists - how does this work?

boatyardblues · 17/07/2020 20:34

Do the figures include the “non-crime crime” hate incidents?