(Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)] Removed references also include a 2021 page titled ‘LGBTQ Survivors of Sexual Violence’, since renamed ‘Sexual Orientation & Sexual Violence’.
RAINN, which provides a national hotline for reporting sexual violence, said it made the changes to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders that target trans people.
‘The removal of rights, freedoms and safe spaces of US trans citizens is unacceptable, and has a ripple effect that could put trans people in the UK at greater risk of abuse and violence,’ Kernighan told Metro.
‘Yet too often, trans and non-binary people are left out of that equation, even though research shows they rank among the most common groups to be targeted for sexual violence intended to punish or convert them,’ he told Metro.
Trans people are four times more likely to be victims of violent crimes, including rape and sexual assault, than cisgender people.
