IPV in the LGBT Community.
According to Walters et al. (2013), bisexual women are 1.8 times more likely than heterosexual women to experience IPV over their lifetime, while lesbians and heterosexual women experience around the same amount. Males were the perpetrators for 90 percent of IPV against bisexual women and 50 percent of lesbian women. Lesbians stated that males committed physical violence, rape, and/ or stalking against them (Brown & Herman, 2015). Bisexual men seem to experience more IPV than heterosexual or gay men (Brown & Herman, 2015). Goldberg and Meyer (2013) found that 26.9 percent of gay men had experienced IPV in their lifetimes, with 12.1 percent having experienced it in the past year. Although it is a new area of research, it appears that transgender people may experience even higher rates of IPV than others. Langenderfer-Magruder et al. (2014) found that 20.4 percent of cisgender people have experienced IPV or dating violence, compared to 31.1 percent of transgender people have experienced IPV or dating violence.