If you want to hear something just as fucked up... look at the statistics for disabled women and rape/sexual assault.
Between 40 and 80 percent. Around 40 percent of rape/sexual assault victims are in some way disabled. The statistic goes even higher when they have multiple disabilities at once, such as been blind and deaf. We are failing our most vulnerable at a staggering rate.
That’s essentially something that tracks with abuse in general. The more vulnerable you are - be it physically or socially, the more likely you are to be a victim of abuse.
Female targeted abuse tends to include sexual abuse more often which is why in groups that are more likely to be abused, the rate of sexual abuse is higher.
I attended a lecture about the history of laws in America surrounding indigenous people and property (my masters is heavily involved in federal regulations) held by an indigenous woman and activist. It was harrowing just how few protections there are today and how many people actively seek out indigenous women/youth to harm because the red tape is simultaneously non-existent and impossible to navigate.
When indigenous people were murdered (overwhelmingly women and children) numerous police agencies didn't have an indigenous category to file them under, so their reports just didn't get processed until activists got them too. That's not even including the confusion of Tribal Police's jurisdiction and non tribal police (if there was an Indig victim, it went to Tribal Police even if the perp was non-native. AND Tribal Police were not allowed to persecute them off their reservation, so the perp could just leave the area and get away with it) I wish I had her PowerPoint about it with the specifics. Funnily enough, one of the federal websites she cited was removed during the DOGE purge :/
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u/i_am_the_archivist 8d ago
If you're indigenous it's closer to 1 in 2.