During the Trump administration talk of a "silent trans genocide" was big drama in Oregon. It started almost immediately after his election, the night of even. I had friends whom I had known for 10+ years repeating these paranoid fantasies about how way down in southern or out in eastern Oregon, places people from Portland never go, Oregon trans women of color (
blacks make up just 2.2% of the state population btw) were being murdered by proud boys/neo-nazis/white nationalists. The proud boys were the most common people blamed because they are the nearest thing you can claim is an active hate group in Oregon. The story would always be vague as possible and involve them waiting on some dirt road in the middle of nowhere looking out for men in dresses because that makes sense. Of course no one had a real life example of this happening so you would never get the trannies name, what county they were killed in, who killed them etc. You just had to know somewhere in this state an evil far-right group was getting away with murders of trans people. It was completely surreal. I have still yet to this day found a recent case of an Oregonian troon being jumped and murdered in the backwoods like that.