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Transphobia<br />

Transwoman<br />

A male-to-female (MTF) transsexual woman (transwoman) is someone who<br />

was labelled male at birth but has a female gender identity, and therefore<br />

transitions to live completely and permanently as a woman (LGBT, 2014b).<br />

Male-to-female transsexual women can be described as straight if they are<br />

attracted to men, lesbian if they are attracted to women or bisexual if they<br />

are attracted to both men and women (LGBT, 2014b).<br />

Transphobia<br />

Examples of Transphobic Crime -<br />

• A 16 year old trans girl, on her way to school, regularly experienced<br />

people shouting insults from their cars like, "Girl with a cock", "There’s<br />

the he/she/it", "Tranny boy" and other names.<br />

• An 18 year old received 84 abusive and threatening text messages<br />

within three days after she told her former school class that she had<br />

transitioned.<br />

• An older boy pulled up the skirt of a 12 year old trans girl to look at<br />

her genitals.<br />

• A trans women was discovered at a bus station by another woman<br />

who then engaged in yelling abuse, spitting, punching, kicking and<br />

trying to scratch the trans woman’s face.<br />

• A trans police officer was outed by the press under the headline "Lady<br />

Boy in Blue". She was then threatened by a group of young men, near<br />

her home; her car was vandalised.<br />

• An elderly trans man was surrounded by a teen-age gang who<br />

shouted insults and poked him with sticks.<br />

• A 15 year old trans girl was beaten up on her way home.<br />

• A trans woman was raped at knife-point on her way home.<br />

• An assailant approached a trans woman, after realising she was<br />

transsexual, punched her to the ground, undid his trousers and forced<br />

her to perform an act of oral sex on him.<br />

• A son murdered his father on discovering he was a transsexual person<br />

(GIRES, 2010).<br />

The following are a few examples of transphobic attitudes -<br />

• The belief/insistence that trans women are not "real women",<br />

• The belief/insistence that trans men are not "real" men,<br />

• The belief/insistence that non-binary genders are invalid. You are<br />

either ’male’ or ’female’, there are no other options available.<br />

• The belief/insistence that transsexual people are gay people in denial<br />

and wish to have sex reassignment surgery to attempt to restore<br />

’heteronormativity’,<br />

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[git] • Branch: 1.5 @ 26b5e6d • Release: 1.5 (<strong>2016</strong>-05-01)

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