Trans men and non-binary people who were assigned female at birth may be nervous about accessing support services that are targeted at women, despite the fact that their abuse pre-dates their transition or their abuser still perceives and treats them as a woman, so making their experience different from that of other male survivors. Faced with disavowing their identity as men in women’s services or fearing transphobia in men’s services, many trans men are left without access to specialist support.
