Transphobic Hate Crime Report 2020

This report presents the findings of a survey looking into the nature and impacts of transphobic hate crime.  Trans people are under such high rates of physical, sexual, and verbal attack that more than half feel less able to leave their home. 

As one research respondent states: 

“The fear is particularly prevalent when public figures – politicians, high profile newspaper columnists etc – demonise trans people in print or on air; it makes the fear more pronounced because you worry someone’s going to act on it.” 

As per this report, in the last year alone a quarter of trans people had experienced or been threatened with physical assault. Nearly one in five had experienced or been threatened with sexual assault.