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[–]buttbuttinator 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

“The original piece in question was a difficult and frankly irresponsible read — especially in light of the fact that 21 trans people have been murdered in 2020 so far (the vast majority of whom are Black trans women),”

Why do they always bring race into this? Seriously, I know that that's the exact sort of language that a lot of people use when they don't want to address real racial issues, but in this case it's not a racial issue at all. Why did they bring race into this? Is it because they're trying to hide behind black civil rights the same way that they hide behind LGB civil rights?

Is 20 murders in 8 months even disproportionate for black males? Looks like over 6000 black men were murdered in 2018, so if we assume that the numbers would stay similar in 2020 (which is admittedly not a reasonable assumption) and we assume that 0.6% of black men are trans (which is the rate for US adults in general according to this study) then that's on par. Which would mean that, once again, TRAs are appropriating a problem that faces marginalized communities to try to make themselves look like victims.