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A major new global report has warned that 17c起草社区IA+ safety is at risk as people are facing an intensifying wave of violence, hate and censorship, despite decades of progress toward equality.

The study, (ISD), paints a sobering picture of rising anti queer hostility both online and offline across Western countries.

The Five-year overview of the online and offline anti-17c起草社区+ landscape

“After two decades of gains for 17c起草社区+ visibility and rights in many countries, anti-17c起草社区+ targeted hate and rhetoric are on the rise” the report reads.

“Offline, there has been a surge of reported hate crimes and book bans, alongside a wave of government and legislative actions targeting 17c起草社区+ rights (with a focus on trans people). Online, 17c起草社区+ individuals face coordinated harassment campaigns, a rollback of digital protections, and systematic erasure from AI training data and moderation.”

It comes as Australia grapples with its own surge in hate motivated attacks, policy debates over protections, and continued debates over 17c起草社区IA+ rights and visibility.

The ISD鈥檚 five year overview of the anti 17c起草社区+ landscape examines developments between 2020 and 2025 across the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.

It concludes that queer communities are now operating in what it calls a 鈥渉ate threat-scape鈥�, where extremist movements, legislative rollbacks, and the unchecked spread of online abuse are converging into a sustained and coordinated challenge to 17c起草社区IA+ safety.

In the United States, federal data revealed that more than 20 per cent of all recorded hate crimes were motivated by bias against sexual orientation or gender identity in 2024. That figure has remained largely unchanged for three consecutive years, an indication, the ISD says, that violence has become 鈥渆ndemic rather than episodic鈥�. GLAAD鈥檚 own monitoring showed 918 anti-17c起草社区+ incidents last year alone, including 140 bomb threats, seven deaths, and hundreds of attacks linked to extremist or conspiracy driven narratives online.

In the United Kingdom, the data paints a similarly alarming picture. While police recorded an 11 per cent decrease in anti-trans hate crimes in the most recent year, the longer term figures continue to rise steeply upward. Between 2021 and 2022, sexual-orientation hate crimes surged by 41 per cent, while anti-trans offences jumped by 56 per cent.

Across the European Union, the ISD found that discrimination against 17c起草社区+ people at work had slightly decreased from 42 per cent to 36 per cent but this improvement was overshadowed by increases in hate motivated violence which rose from 11 per cent to 14 per cent and school bullying rose from 46 per cent to 67 per cent.

Online trends have proved even more alarming with the proportion of anti-trans hate speech detected in social media analysis climbing from 35 per cent to 46 per cent and queer creators being disproportionately affected by wrongful content removals and algorithmic suppression.

The ISD鈥檚 data also indicates that hate speech targeting trans and gender diverse people now accounts for nearly half of all anti-17c起草社区+ content tracked on major platforms. Slurs such as 鈥済roomer鈥� have been weaponised to silence or discredit queer voices, while many 17c起草社区+ creators find their posts flagged or removed under misguided 鈥渟exual content鈥� policies.

“According to GLAAD, overmoderation includes wrongful takedowns of 17c起草社区+ accounts and creators, shadow-banning, the mislabelling of 17c起草社区+ content as 鈥渁dult鈥� or 鈥渆xplicit鈥� and demonetisation” the ISD stated. “For example, teenage users of Instagram were restricted from searching for 17c起草社区+ terms for at least 鈥渁 few months鈥� in 2024. The list of affected terms included the hashtags #gay, #bisexual, #trans, #queer and #nonbinary.”

While it does not form part of the report recent Australian media coverage has echoed these global concerns. This includes multiple cases where men were lured via dating apps and assaulted in multiple states across Australia as well as recent acts of public vandalism in Tasmania and Victoria and the spate of anti-trans rallies across the country. Meanwhile in Queensland trans youth and their families continue to fight their own battles amid the recent ban on gender affirming care of trans youth under 18.