Twice more. More than one in four transgender people (28%) have been the victim of a crime in the UK, compared to only 14% of those who are not. This is what the British National Statistics Office (ONS) revealed on Friday.
Each year, the NSO probes around 34,000 people in England and Wales for crimes they have suffered in the past 12 months that they have not reported to the police, a method of investigation. known to reveal long-term trends.
For the first time this year, the organization analyzed the results of this survey through the lens of gender identity.
Examining data collected between October 1, 2019 and March 18, 2020, the ONS concluded that transgender people were "twice as likely" as others to be victims of a crime or misdemeanor ( excluding fraud) during this period.
The organization specifies, however, that only 63 people out of the 34,000 interviewed were transgender, which means that the sample has "reduced reliability".
Ethnicity also influences
The statistics office also looked into the impact of sexual orientation or ethnic origin on the risk of being attacked. She thus underlines that people of "mixed ethnic origin" are "the most likely to be the victim of a crime or an offense" (20%), ahead of Asian people (15%) and white people ( 13%).
Gays, lesbians or bisexuals are 21% to report having been the victim of a crime during the period, against 14% for heterosexual people.
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