"I was lonely because I thought I was the only one in the entire world who feels this way." She attempted suicide, she says, to "destroy the feelings". Laura has battled depression and anxiety since she realised she was "different" when she was 10 years old. "The high rate of violence experienced by transgender people is clearly unacceptable," Mr Santow says. The rates of verbal and physical attacks are particularly high for young people, he says, and a recent survey shows 66 per cent of participants experience verbal abuse and a fifth have reported physical abuse because of their gender identity. "But we know from the commission's own research and the research of others that trans and gender diverse people report disproportionately high rates of violence, harassment, bullying and exclusion," he says. Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow says there is no comprehensive national data about the incidence of hate crimes against trans people in Australia. She says there's been a backlash against trans people following attacks on the Safe Schools program, which promotes acceptance of LGBTI students, and many gender diverse people do not report verbal and physical attacks to police. "It's not murder, but it's still assault and it could lead to murder." Ms Goldner says, while there have not been any fatalities from transphobic attacks in Australia, the community is under fire. Data from the Trans Murder Monitoring project shows there have been 271 trans people killed worldwide in 2016. According to the Human Rights Campaign, 21 transgender men and women have been killed in the US this so far this year.
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