The War on Transgender Women
Transgender women are the least of any woman’s problems
In mid-November 2022, the world population was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion people.
The number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, 50.4% are male and 49.6% are women.
Nearly 89,000 women and girls were killed intentionally in 2022 across the globe. Fifty-five per cent (48,800) of all female homicides are committed by family members or intimate partners.
During their lifetime, 1 in 3 women, around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner — a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade.
Over 230 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation for religious reasons.
Gender inequality and norms on the acceptability of violence against women are the root causes of violence against women.
Some of the factors why women are exposed to increased risk are:
- community norms that privilege or ascribe higher status to men and lower status to women;
- male controlling behaviors towards their partners;
- beliefs in family honor…
