Charges were reduced for defendants who used the gay and trans panic defenses about one-third of the time (33% of cases) in the Usa.

A 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found 47% of transgender respondents reported that they had been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. One in ten had been sexually assaulted in the prior year.

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A Williams Institute study found that transgender people were more than four times more likely to experience violent victimization compared to sis-gender people.

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Many assailants of rape against trans women have used the trans panic as their defence in court. They didn't know they were trans until they raped them.

Safety has no sex or gender!

Transgender women are not equivalent to sis-gender men in terms of muscle mass, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness or physical performance.