I checked the hate crime statistics of US, Canada and UK, and I found some interesting facts. Details are in the comments.

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[–]cutenoobies[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

First comes the USA 2018 reported hate crime stats. Its pretty simple and the table (https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2018/tables/table-1.xls) states that gay men face more abuse than any other sub-community of LGBT community.

For reported Canadian hate crime stats of 2018 (2019 is not yet available), they have lumped sexual orientation as a single category, and there is no further quantification available. (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510006601). They do have a Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, but the results of it are collected in the table format that is in the link above. Not something that I was looking for.

UK is where it gets quite interesting. I checked the crime stats from the report from House of Commons Library report for police reported incidents for England and Wales 2018/19 (http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8537/CBP-8537.pdf). If you open the report, and go to page 22, you will see the statement "Transgender people were around twice as likely to experience threats of physical or sexual harassment or violence compared with the LGBT community as a whole (11% v 5%)", with a source to another report (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/721704/LGBT-survey-research-report.pdf#page=70). Obviously, it takes you to a table on page 70 of that report where quantification is done based on sexual orientation. UK's HOC report says that trans people get twice as likely abuse than any other sub-community in the LGBT community, yet there is no mention of transgender in the LGBT survey report stats on the follow up table. All they mention is "queer", and that is not a conclusive proof of trans identities.

Two straight girls can kiss once in their lives and call themselves queer. How can they have such a vague term in the survey for hate crime reports? It is beyond me. Maybe this helps them to have results in their favour, but if more people can speak against it and more people are aware, we wouldn't be taking TRA's words at face value and mollycoddling them.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You can bet your ass that if trans was the no. 1 recipient of violence in Canada that they would isolate that number and have a 24-7 freak out over it.

[–]GConly 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So I'm British: we've not had a single documented death of a trans from a hate crime in my memory (I'm fifty). Definitely no one since 2000.

Also, transwomen appear to be murdered at half the male rate, same as natal women even though their involvement in crime is male typical.

That's typical of every western country. Even Brazil seems to have a representative number of trans deaths.

Always judge the violence a group experiences by the number of corpses. It's callous but it's by far the most accurate counting method. No false reports. That's becoming a real issue in the UK at this time.

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

Most excellent post. Thanks for doing that work.