Empowering Transgender Lives
Domestic Abuse
DID YOU KNOW?
Domestic Abuse often starts as controlling or coercive behaviour, and sadly, that can then lead to full-on physical Abuse.Be in no doubt, though, that even controlling/coercive behaviour is Domestic Abuse.
The Beaumont Society would like to ensure that if you are a survivor or a victim, you can be signed up for appropriate help.
We have an experienced in-house Trans IDVA – Independent Domestic Violence Advisor who can offer a confidential service to help.
You can just make initial contact by emailing at or by phone at 07716 691213.
So What Is Domestic Abuse?
A partner, ex-partner or relative who is mentally, emotionally or physically abusive toward you.
Verbal abuse can often consist of undermining your confidence. That cycle of abuse can often then escalate and become more and more serious in nature.
Abuse Consists Of:
- Isolating you – from friends, relatives, health services and sources of support
- Monitoring or controlling you – for example, tracking you, hacking your social media accounts, insisting on viewing what is on your phone, making you stay in the house or limiting times you are allowed out.
- Telling you what you can and cannot wear or who you can and cannot see.
- Witholding or limiting your access to appropriate health care and/or medication.
- Degrading or punishing you – for example, not allowing you to eat or rewarding you only for behaviour which they see as “good”.
- Being financially controlling – for example, not allowing you to have your own bank account or having earnings or benefits paid only to the abuser. Demanding to see receipts, challenging what you have spent money on or insisting that certain things are “not needed”.
- Intimidating – for example, threats of violence.
- Being harmful towards pets or your belongings – this might be to manipulate, frighten or control you.
- Threatening to “Out” you as a means of damaging your reputation, causing distress and disruption.
- Being physically violent and harming you and/or being sexually violent towards you or making you engage in non-consensual sexual activity.
