CoP3// Research into transphobia

Transphobia is antagonistic attitudes and feelings directed towards transgender, transsexual or against transsexuality much like homophobia is antagonistic attitudes and feelings directed towards homosexuality or homosexuals. Transphobia is prejudice and discrimination against someone who identities as part of the transsexual community.  

 Transphobia comes in so many forms, much like any other hate crime; like harassment and verbal as well as physical abuse. Transgender Day of Remembrance takes place on the 20th of Nov; the day is dedicated to victims of transphobic attacks and have lost their lives to it. Rita Hester was murdered on November 28, 1998 because she was a transgender woman. Her death pushed forward the equal rights movement for transgender identifying people.

''Child victims of transphobia experience harassment, school bullying, and violence in school, foster care, and social programs. Adult victims experience public ridicule, harassment including misgendering, taunts, threats of violence, robbery, and false arrest; many feel unsafe in public. A high percentage report being victims of sexual violence. Some are refused healthcare or suffer workplace discrimination, including being fired for being transgender, or feel under siege by conservativepolitical or religious groups who oppose laws to protect them. There is even discrimination from a fragment of the gay rights movement.'' - Wiki under 'transphobia'.

''Sexual assaults, other kinds of violence, threatening behaviour and harassment are all part of a 170 per cent rise in crime reports that has caused alarm among transgender people. 

According to Freedom of Information responses received from 26 of the UK's 45 police forces, transphobic hate crime reports rose from 215 in 2011 to 582 in 2015.'' - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/transphobic-hate-crime-statistics-violence-transgender-uk-police-a7159026.html

https://womenofthepatriarchy.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/the-function-of-transphobia/

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/03/22/analysis-trans-suicide-and-the-way-the-media-reports-the-trans-community/

The community GLAAD has documented LGBT and transgender representation and inclusion online through their website and by doing this are helping campaign for the acceptance of LGBT identifying people within our community. In the first month of 2017, GLAAD has released an article demanding an increase in coverage of the murder of transgender and transphobic attacks. (article here). 

''GLAAD is calling on the media to:

• Report on each transgender person murdered. In order for people to be aware of the unprecedented violence affecting the community, the public needs to know it is happening. The media has a responsibility to communicate about the deadly realities faced by transgender people.
• Respect and use the lived identity, name, and pronoun of the victim. Disregarding the victim's gender identity and misgendering them in news reports adds further insult to injury, compounding the tragedy by invalidating who the victims were. GLAAD's Doubly Victimized: Reporting on Transgender Victims of Crime offers clear guidelines for reporting respectfully on stories where transgender people have been victimized by crime. GLAAD's Media Reference Guide also offers a glossary of terms, and best practices for fairly and accurately covering transgender stories.''  - GLAAD website

http://www.transequality.org/ offers an area for transgender people to educate themselves on their rights and offers environment for allies and supports of the equally campaign for trans to gather. The website also offers a break down of laws supporting trans people as well as laws that are transphobic against them. Recently they've released their 2015 report on transgender, which I've been using as well as GLAAD to support my research. This report can be found in PDF form here http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF