“The CDC statistic, which is an under-reported statistic, says that 1 in 5 children are raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 18. The thing is, there’s a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that was published in 2012 that says that gender nonconforming children, and I really hope you hear this point, especially those male assigned at birth–so we can picture who these children are: effeminate boys, trans girls, nonbinary people who were male assigned at birth–they are actually the most at risk.”
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Amita Swadhin, “Stories Become Movements, Become Stories: Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence" Allied Media Conference, 2018
[link to cited study]
From: https://www.cdc.gov/child-abuse-neglect/about/about-child-sexual-abuse.html
From: "The prevalence of child sexual abuse with online sexual abuse added": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213424000036


















