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[–]julesburm1891 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Just curious—are the murder rates for transwomen (of any race) actual comparable to the murder rates of women?

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 23 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

They are lower in general than women (in USA it was 2.0 per 100k for transwomen+transmen of all colors versus 2.1 per 100k for women), and black transwoman are comparable to black women death rates (I don't remember numbers, but it was around 4.0-5.0, and if remove black transwomen from all statistics, rest transwomen+transmen have 1.7 for both combined, so they are the safest demographics of all). And most transwomen deaths are from prostitution. In UK on average it was one transgender killed per year. So as one article said, if 2 or 3 transgenders will be killed in one year it will be doubled or trippled death rate.

There were few articles and researches about it, debunking this myth. As it seems like transgender people killed more people than were killed themselves.

Same with suicide rates, both transwomen+transmen combined rates are slightly above than women rates, and much lower than gay or lesbian suicide rates.

Can't find research I was reading, but seems there a lot of info on it on different sites: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-trans-people-murdered-uk

[–]julesburm1891 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You are welcome. And be aware, that transgender death rate is combined for both transmen and transwomen, there no separate statistics. So separated death rate should be at least two times lower for one of them.

[–]GConly 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

In the UK, the numbers are the same as cis women once you take into account the deaths from sex work. We have not had one hate crime death in record. I think a couple may have been killed after tricking straight guys.

They die at about half the cis male rate. It's the same in America and all over.

It's utter bullshit that they get killed en masse by hate crimes. It's why the deaths from Brazil get rolled into them. And even then they are still ciswomen normal, it's just Brazil has a stupidly high murder rate.

[–]fuck_reddit 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lol if you're having to using stats form Brazil to create a problem in America/the UK you KNOW there is no real problem in America/the UK

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, the numbers are easy to find. Just google FBI crime stats and the types of demographics you require to know about. I did the math for the last year months ago and posted to /r/lgbdropthet RIP, bottom line is no they are not being murdered at rates different to the murder rates of any other demographic or group.