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It's bullshit. The trans day of remembrance website claims 53 deaths in 12 months in the US (source). The UCLA Williams Institute claims there are 1,397,150 transgender americans (source). This works out to a murder rate of about 3.8 per 100,000 or 1 per 26,361.Kiwis,
Any stats on whether the epidemic of trans homicides is disproportionately high? It's regularly described as a 'genocide'. Is that true or bullshit?? I just don't believe it's not mostly to do with engaging in risky behaviours notorious for increasing your chances of being hurt.
(Meanwhile women are stalked and killed by husbands, boyfriends, crazy men, and no mainstream discussion of 'epidemic of hate crime murders'. )
Now let's look at FBI crime statistics. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter had a rate of 5.0 per 100,000 (source). Trans people are about 25% less likely to be murdered even before you account for the fact that many of those deaths were not related to being trans at all, it was domestic-partner violence or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
An older Trans Day of Remembrance page which I cannot find right now also gave mini biographies of each person listed and a disproportionate number from Puerto Rico which is more violent than any US state. The murder rate for Puerto Rican transsexuals could be higher than the national average and it'd still tell us nothing besides "stay away from Puerto Rico, everybody gets shot there".
Edit: That day of rememberance page also proves the rest of the world is even safer for trans people than the US.
The 2020 US census gave a population of 331 million while a late 2021 estimate of world population claimed 7.9 billion people. This means the US has about 4 percent of the world's population so we'd expect 53 deaths / 0.04 = 1,325 dead trans people worldwide . But the day of remembrance's own website reports only 375 dead trans people world wide (source). Doing some really crude math this means the global trans murder rate is 375 / 1,325 * 3.8 = 1.07 murdered trans people per 100,000. This is probably lower than anywhere in the world other than wealthy countries with generous welfare states like Monaco or Luxembourg.
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