TGEU Countries: Hungary Direct transphobic violence Trans people face a high level of violence, hate-motivated ing their gender (or their desired gender) through their attacks and harassment, as stated by the Fundamental physical appearance and clothing due to fear of violence, Rights Agency’s 2012 EU LGBT survey. The prevalence harassment and discrimination. These numbers are also of hate-motivated violence in the 12 months prior to the significantly higher than the EU average. survey was 10 per cent in Hungary, slightly higher than the EU average of 8 per cent. While the prevalence of According to the LGBT Survey 2010 by Háttér Society, hate-motivated harassment in the 12 months preceding trans people were significantly (25 % vs. 6 % in the sam- the survey was 22 per cent across the surveyed EU mem- ple’s general population) overrepresented among rape ber states, it was significantly higher in Hungary, at 28 per victims. The study also confirms the low reporting rates cent. As a result of these trends, almost half of all trans among trans people: only 11 per cent reported experi- respondents from Hungary (45 %) avoided express- ences of violence to authorities. For the record 1. At a night school, one of the victim’s classmates brought more for his friends. They took the whole box and tried her boyfriend to the classroom. He argued with some of to take other things from his pockets while asking him the other students, and to the victim, a trans man, he said: whether he was male or female One of them said she “It must feel shitty not to have a dick”. During the break, knew him and he was female. There were by-standers in the victim asked the teacher not to allow the man back the vicinity, but they did nothing. When a police van drove into the classroom, but nothing happened. Because of the by, the perpetrators moved away, but they came back af- victim’s request, the man’s girlfriend called him a “punk terwards and continued to harass the victim. They spit beast”. The man continued his threatening behaviour, and on him, grabbed him and threatened him. He got away at the end of the class another classmate asked his broth- by getting on the bus when it came. Nothing was stolen: er to pick the victim up and drive him home for safety. they returned all his belongings before he left. 2. The victim of an attempted assault met a man on an 4. The victim is regularly verbally abused by her family, online friend finder, and the man came to visit her, but which does not respect her gender identity. After her fa- he was not alone. He had brought a friend to beat her ther was hospitalised, the victim’s relatives blamed her up. She managed to escape to the garbage room of her for his health problems and physically assaulted her. building and locked the door. She called the police, but the two men were gone when the police arrived. 5. A trans woman passed by a family on her way to work. Without any warning, the man tried to hit her, but she + 44 + 3. At a bus stop, a man who was with a group of friends was able to avoid the blow. When she asked him why he asked a trans man for a cigarette, and then asked him for had tried to hit her, he threatened her. + 45 +