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[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Which is why most trans women killed in the US are black.

And there are more black trans people per capita because they hate gay people even more than trans.

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they might just be getting killed like most black people by black on black violence, gang shootings etc, and being transgender is a coincidence

[–]MarkTwainiac 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But most black "TW" who die of homicide in the US are killed in the context of ongoing domestic violence by their longstanding male intimate partners who are also black. Or in fights and feuds with other black men they know and are close to, and often are partners in crime with, and who typically have sex with men. They die at the hands of other black men who are also homosexual or bisexual.

Yes, there's lots of homophobia in the black community. Many black trans people are hugely homophobic themselves. But when black trans-identified males die of homicide in the US, the killers aren't straight black homophobes. The killers are other black males who engage in homosexual sex.