Have transsexuals become easy targets?

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Have transsexuals become easy targets?
By Chris Summers  BBC News 
10 August, 2010


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10803570


Murders are obviously at the extreme end of the spectrum and remain very rare.

But while figures for transphobic attacks are not collated nationally, Bernard Reed of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (Gires) said they were on the increase.

He said this was partly because of the rising number of people living openly as transsexuals.