New Report Reveals That 80% Of LGBT+ People Have Been Bullied Online
A new report from ‘Galop’ has revealed that 80% of LGBT+ people have been bullied online in the past five years. This included outing people and threatening them with violence.
From the 700 LGBT+ people asked in the study, eight in ten had reported a form of online bullying and one in five said they had been abused over 100 times.
93% of trans people have faced some kind of online bullying. 70% of cis-gender members of the LGB community have faced online bullying.
“There are just pages and pages of anti-trans comments on trans related articles saying we should be killed, have mental illness, and are paedophiles,” wrote one person.
According to ‘Gay Times’, the kinds of abuse varied. 97% of cases were insults, threats of physical violence make up 63% of cases, threats of sexual violence make up 41% of cases, death threats make up 39% of cases and outing someone make up 34% of cases.
More than half (58%) of the incidents happened on Facebook, then follows Twitter (34%), comment sections on media outlets (19%), Instagram (17%), YouTube (13%) and dating apps (11%).
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