“They were just calling us faggots, they were calling us trannies, shemales, that type of thing. Was not fun.”

— Petra

“And I think people tend to overlook that part because it’s, oh, ‘he didn’t touch you’ or ‘she didn’t touch you’. But it is also just as harmful, if not worse. But, it’s hard to pinpoint which is worse, because if you put both on a scale, they are just as heavy, and they are just as difficult to deal with.” - Gabriella

In the first trans mental health study conducted in Australia, Hyde and colleagues reported that trans people were four times more likely to experience depression, and 1.5 times more likely to experience anxiety disorders, compared to the cisgender population. Trans people are also significantly more likely than cisgender people to experience physical violence (Dean, et al., 2000), with physical assault a significant predictor of suicide attempts (Clements-Nolle, Marx, & Katz, 2006).

”The regional police station that I went to didn’t do anything as a result of my sexual assault…If a white woman would have showed up and had been like ‘I’ve been raped’ there would have been a really different response. I think they’ve dehumanised us to the point where they don’t think that we should exist, so they don’t lift a finger, that’s hard and at that time I internalised that, I felt that that was deserved”. - Dinaz