“…In the UK, the number of transphobic hate crimes reported annually has tripled since 2014 and a survey of trans youth in Scotland found that 73% of respondents reported experiencing at least one type of specifically transphobic emotionally abusive behavior from a current or ex-partner (LGBT Youth J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f up to an estimated 89% of trans people are at risk of gender-based violence (Wirtz, Poteat, Malik, & Glass, 2018). Prior research has strongly associated surviving violence of this nature with increased rates of alcohol (Arayasirikul, Wilson, & Raymond, 2017;Chakrapani, Newman, Shunmugam, Logie, & Samuel, 2017;Nuttbrock et al, 2014) and illicit drug use (Budhwani et al, 2017;Scheim, Bauer, & Shokoohi, 2017;Shah et al, 2018), as well as nonmedical use of prescription drugs (Benotsch et al, 2013).…”