ACLU transgender lawyer, Chase Strangio, "So much violence against trans people would be eradicated if people could just accept and celebrate their sexual attraction to trans people. Your obsession is so often born of your feared desire."

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[–]JulienMayfair 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Much of the violence against trans people happens in the context of trans people who are involved in prostitution, just like women involved in prostitution often become targets of violence. It's a hazardous job.

Statistically, trans people as a whole are not any more likely to be targets of violence than any other member of the general population.

[–]Intuit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Aren't they something like 40% likely to be murdered?

By themselves, of course (suicide), but still, that's a pretty high rate of violence.

[–]JulienMayfair 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Aren't they something like 40% likely to be murdered?

No. Some women back on the GenderCritical subreddit did a deep dive into murder statistics and found no epidemic of trans homicides. In fact, as I said above, they found that trans people as a whole did not have any significant risk of homicide based simply on being trans. Where the numbers diverged were where you brought race into the equation, so for trans women of color, their homicide rates track with their race being the significant factor. In contrast, for white trans people, their homicide numbers were lower than the average for the general population in the U.S.

Of course, posting analyses of data like this was part of the reason GenderCritical got banned.

The epidemic of trans homicides is one of the myths they've invented.

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

Sorry, was a joke about the high trans suicide rate, supposedly 40% or something high.