Intersex people face high levels of violence in Europe – DW – 09/17/2025
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One in six intersex people was physically assaulted in the year 2022, an EU agency report said. Intersex people are the only LGBTIQ group that has not experienced a drop in discrimination since an earlier survey in 2019.
    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      To be honest, I’m confused about this too.

      How are 40% of respondents being harassed at work for being intersex? How do people even find out?

      Only about 30% of the people surveyed identify as cis, and around 15% describe their orientation as heterosexual, so I’m sure that they definitely face many of the same struggles that the LGBTQIA+ community faces as a whole.

      But why would discrimination at large be decreasing, except for intersex people? Maybe they’re feeling more empowered to come out, and people don’t know how to react?
      I would even expect, if anything, that bigots would be more understanding of someone for whom Nature made life “visibly” harder, but maybe I’m just naive.

      In any case, it doesn’t seem like the study sheds enough light on this, hopefully more studies will follow so that we can find a way to do better.

      • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        discrimination against trans people is increasing in most of the world.

        intersex people often look trans, and often are trans.