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Who is the most vulnerable to domestic abuse and violence? Women or trans women?

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rabbitwoman · 06/03/2022 10:42

In the wake of SMP Robison's statements in Holyrod this week, I have seen so many people up and down twitter (and once in a real life conversation) that trans women are more vulnerable to domestic violence and abuse than women.

I am wondering exactly where this comes from and why it is said so confidently.

Does no one ever question it when they hear it? Just a very quick bit of mental maths shows me this is nonsense, knowing as I do dozens of women who have been victims of abuse and domestic violence, but I only know three trans women altogether.

How does this maths stack up, is it just an outright lie with no evidence or is there actual evidence and statistics to back it up? Because next time someone trots it out I would like to be able to rebuke it....

(although if it is true, surely that's a very concerning trend that we should be a lot more aware of?)

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AlisonDonut · 06/03/2022 10:54

This is why they started with the 'report hate crime' thing where every thing is 'transphobic' and anyone who questions anything is committing a 'hate crime' so that the recorded stats would add up and it would look as if 'transphobic hate crime' is through the roof.

Whereas it is 'misgendering' or sticking they are mainly reporting, it will just show as a hate crime not as simple linguistics. And thus trans women become victims as much as women are.

Whereas women are actually being raped, assaulted and murdered, most of which isn't ever recorded or even reported as the police do nothing when it is a woman who is a victim. They have to die to even get on the stats.

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rabbitwoman · 06/03/2022 10:52

Someone has zipped me this which is impenetrable to me:

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305774

However, saying a trans person is 2x more likely to suffer intimate partner violence than a woman does not mean MORE trans woman need support than women?

Also, we know that many trans people call dead naming, misgendering and generally refusing to believe that they are of the sex they claim to be actual violence, so is this included in the definition of intimate partner violence in this study?

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Helleofabore · 06/03/2022 10:46

I would like to hear the answer to this too rabbitwoman