235 Journal of Gender-Based Violence • vol 1 • no 2 • 235–52 • © Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol • #JGBV • Print ISSN 2398-6808 • Online ISSN 2398-6816 https://doi.org/10.1332/239868017X15009036473945 article Sexual victimisation of transgender people in the Netherlands: prevalence, risk factors and health consequences Marianne Cense, m.cense@rutgers.nl Rutgers Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands Stans de Haas, s.dehaas@uu.nl University Utrecht, Netherlands Tamar Doorduin, tamardoorduin@gmail.com independent researcher
political ‘debates’. In 2017, the then Conservative government announced that they intended to review the current process for gaining legal recognition of an individual’s gender, with the purpose of streamlining and demedicalizing the process to reflect that being transgender is not an illness. In 2018, a public consultation was launched that was intended to inform the reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. This act has considerably ‘improved the protocols … [that] protect the rights of transgender people’ ( Jamel, 2018 , p 43). The introduction of this legislation
( Stotzer, 2017 ). The lack of available data contributes to the invisibility of the trans community and minimises the economic, emotional and physical violence that transgender people experience. Similarly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), widely recognised as the country’s most complete official crime dataset, records gender in the binary. For example, murder victims’ sex is reported as Male, Female or Unknown ( FBI, 2020a ). However, the UCR does include transgender and non-binary people in their hate crime statistics. In 2019
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