Violence and Harassment Against Transgender Adults in California

Transgender people in the United States consistently experience disproportionately high rates of violence compared with cisgender individuals. This report examines the victimization of transgender adults in California, a “high equality” state with some of the strongest legal and policy protections for transgender people and home to an estimated 263,700 transgender adults.

This report examines the experiences of victimization among transgender adults in California using data from the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey—the largest community-based survey of transgender people in the United States. The analysis focuses on 9,146 California respondents aged 18 and older who identified as transgender men, transgender women, or nonbinary. It explores experiences of physical attacks, threats, verbal and online harassment, and bathroom-related violence, as well as how rates of victimization vary across demographic groups. The report also assesses whether individuals who are more visibly identifiable as transgender face greater risks of violence and harassment.