Domestic abuse and sexual violence against transgender and non-binary people surges

I attended training on coercive and controlling behaviour and the trainer said that misgendering and dead-naming your transitioning partner was abuse. I mentioned trans-widows in the group chat and then contacted the trainer afterwards to say that she seemed ill-informed on the topic and directed her to the trans-widows resources. Wish I could have done more but the online format is really difficult to navigate.

Is this an early response to deflect from the trans crime figures revealed by the census? And how many of the victims, trans and non binary, were female? Ignoring sex sows confusion and probably underplays VAWG but that's the intention isn't it.

The relationship board frequently documents women gaslit by their husbands to believe they are the problem, as well as scorned / bitter exes abusing their structural power to claim the woman is harassing them.

I'd need reassurance these figures didn't include, for example, recently transitioned transwomen in hetero relationships experiencing boundary setting from their partners.

I would like to see who is perpetrating the crimes ( if they are infact real). It could be trans on trans abuse.

I’d imagine that many of the female people who identify as trans/NB are vulnerable to IPV via a number of ‘intersections’ including neurodiversity, low self esteem and estrangement from their family support networks?

DV is never acceptable and I’m glad all these victims accessed support, but this data isn’t very useful at understanding what’s going on and how to provide adequate services in future.

This. Violence by which biological sex, towards which biological sex?
It's well known men are both more violent and (being bigger and stronger) capable of inflicting more serious damage when they attack. It's also pretty well known that sex hormones have an effect on emotions and behaviour.
Find out exactly what is up and then you're best placed to address it.

I think 'domestic abuse against trans and non binary people ' hides some important information. The fact is this will still be perpetrated by a person with a sex against another person with a sex. This headline will be assumed to refer equally to transwomen and transmen and all non binary people, but the example given in the article is a male partner abusing a transman. I know males can be abused by both male and female partners but I have the horrible feeling that those vulnerable girls who transitioned in their teens will be the ones who in some cases end up in abusive relationships in their twenties and the statistics of any abuse will be hidden by this 'sexless/ mixed sex/ misrepresented sex' category.

I’m assuming there’s also no clear way to distinguish girls and women experiencing DV before transitioning but seeking support after?

I would be interested to see the male/female split (does the likelihood of experiencing DV change much between women and trans identified females?).

That was my first thought too.

I don't see how reporting the raw total like that helps, as a PP has said, if the number of people who state they are trans or have a trans/non-binary identity has also risen (changed at all) then the rate of DV/SA may actually have fallen, or stayed the same.

I note that the example in the report is of a biological female being abused by a man. So, male violence against adult human females... seems like a familiar situation to me.

Is this a rebranding of VAWG, though?

For example in the linked piece, the victim is female. How many of the NB are female rather than male and how many of the transgender people abused are female?

So those are Survivor's Network's figures only. a charity that has come to prominence because of its placing trans people ahead of women.

I expect that might have something to do with an increase in trans people contacting them. I suppose we would only know were we to look at other data from other similar agencies.

Great that trans/non binary people have support - if only it didn't come at the expense of women's services.

I don't have time to look at stats but I'd imagine the number of trans and NB population has also increased in the timeframe? Maybe not by 18% but will be significant.

Trans activists cried wolf too often, I'm afraid.

If you're out proactively drumming up reports of 'hate incidents' and complaints on Twitter and claiming that stickers and 'misgendering' is abuse then you are going to undermine people's confidence in data and integrity.

Which is shit, because of course nobody should suffer any form of abuse.

Agree that Victim Support have no credibility after the way they've behaved over the past year or two.