Transgender Reported Rates of Violence
Description
The transgender community is often targeted by hate crimes at greater levels thananyone else under the LGBTQAI+ umbrella but the true scope of the epidemic is far from
understood due to dramatically low rates of reported hate crimes. The current study seeks
to understand the relationship between transgender people and authorities through an indepth
analysis of historical and current trends in reporting GIB hate crimes. In
conjunction, I apply the notion of regional identity to hypothesize which US region(s)
will have the highest rates of GIB inclusive policies based on their historical identities
and socio-political underpinnings. I posit the Pacific, Mountain, New England, and Mid
Atlantic (West and Northeastern) regions will have the highest rates of protection for
transgender people from 2013-2019. Additionally, I assert there will be a moderate (0.2-
0.4 correlation coefficient) to high (0.4+ correlation coefficient) correlation between GIB
inclusive policies and reported rates of violence. A simple linear regression found a high
correlation (.934) between regional political identities and their rate of enacted GIB
policies. Furthermore, based on the annual report data provided by the FBI, the regions
with the highest tallies of GIB inclusive policies were the same regions with the highest
rates of reported GIB hate crimes with an average of 0.537 over a seven-year time span.
This study provides evidence that regional socio-political underpinnings directly affect
policy enacted regarding GIB protections and that those policies are aligned with higher
rates of reported violence.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2021
Agent
- Author (aut): Miller, Kassandra Elizabeth
- Thesis advisor (ths): Comstock, Audrey
- Committee member: Goksel, Nisa
- Committee member: Kramer, Zachary
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University