![]() The researchers said it would be particularly important to learn whether the assaults are mainly hate crimes or harassment based on the victims' sexual orientation, as opposed to being sexually motivated assaults. ![]() To try to prevent assaults on gay, lesbian and bisexual troops, Rand said the military needs to do more to understand where they are occurring and what is motivating the attackers. ![]() With so many gay, lesbian or bisexual troops in uniform, and such a disproportionate percentage of that population experiencing sexual assaults, Rand said the data suggests that "a considerable fraction" of sexual assaults are likely being committed against LGB service members. The report did not break out sexual assault rates for the troops who identified as “other” or preferred not to answer. Another 6% of men and 9% of women selected "other," including questioning, asexual or undecided, or said they preferred not to answer. The report also found that 91% of men and 77% of women in the military identified as heterosexual. The 2018 survey found that 4% of servicemen, and 14% of servicewomen, identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual. The data collected in the Pentagon's 2018 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members suggests that there may be about 43,000 gay or bisexual men and about 29,000 lesbian or bisexual women in the active-duty military, out of nearly 1.3 million active-duty troops. The DoD estimated that 0.4% of heterosexual or other non-LGB men had been sexually assaulted over the previous year, but an estimated 3.7% of gay or bisexual men - nine times the rate of LGB men - had been sexually assaulted. The difference between sexual assault rates for gay or bisexual men, as opposed to heterosexual men, was even more stark, Rand said. That's about twice the 4.8% of women who reported being heterosexual or otherwise non-LGB estimated to have experienced one or more sexual assaults during that time frame. Defense researchers in 2018 found that an estimated 9% of lesbian or bisexual women in the military had been sexually assaulted at least once in the prior year, according to the study.
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