According to a study with John Hopkins University.
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Most people who identify as gender-diverse or transgender have been preyed upon with sexual or physical violence, according to a new report.
About two-thirds (64%) of transgender and gender-diverse people all over the world suffered physical or sexual violence during their lifetimes, researchers reported recently in JAMA Network Open, according to Newsmax.
In addition, 3 out of 5 (60%) had recently suffered violence, researchers found.
“We found that experiences of interpersonal violence are highly prevalent globally,” concluded the research team led by Erin Cooney, an assistant scientist with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. “These results suggest that there is an urgent need to address violence perpetrated against transgender and gender-diverse people.”
People who identify as transgender are 2.2 times more prone to undergo physical violence and 2.5 times more probable to be subjected to sexual violence from an intimate partner, researchers said in background notes.
Nevertheless, there have been no recent reviews to look at how many transgender people have been victims of violence, researchers said.
For their new study, investigators culled data from 94 prior studies involving more than 65,000 participants.
About 36% of transgender and gender-diverse people had suffered physical violence during their lifetime and 22% recently, according to the report
Likewise, 33% had undergone sexual violence during their lifetime and 15% recently.
In addition, people who identified as transgender were more likely to have been victims of violence in developing countries than those in wealthy nations, the study found.
“High burdens of violence against transgender people found in this review echo prior reviews focused on intimate partner violence, violence motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity, and gender-based violence against transgender populations in the U.S.,” the research team concluded.
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