Posted on 12/10/2019 6:23:45 AM PST by karpov
The claim that there’s an “epidemic” of fatal anti-transgender violence in the United States has been made widely in recent years. A Google search for the phrase “epidemic of anti-trans violence” turns up pieces from the New York Times, NBC National News, ABC National News, and the Human Rights Campaign, a leading LGBT lobby group—among 2,500,000 other results. The HRC’s primary on-point article was headlined ‘A National Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence,’ while the Times led with ‘Eighteen Transgender Killings This Year Raise Fears of an Epidemic.’ Transgender Day of Remembrance has been celebrated since the late 1990s to honor those “members of the transgender community whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence,” and the American Medical Association has stated on record that fatal attacks on transgender people—particularly minority trans women—constitute a large part of an “epidemic of violence” against the trans community.
However, there is remarkably little evidence that transgender Americans are killed at an unusually high rate. According to an exhaustive database kept by the HRC, there were 29 recorded murders of trans individuals in the most violent recent year on record (2017), a fraction of the 17,294 murders committed that year. In fact, the transgender murder rate is far lower than the murder rates for African Americans, poor Americans of all races, and “men” in general. Further, most murders of trans persons are same-race domestic or personal disputes, not hate crimes.
In the Times article, authors Rick Rojas and Vanessa Swales open their piece by noting that in 2019 “at least 18 trans persons” have been murdered “in a wave of violence that the American Medical Association has declared an epidemic.” According to the article, trans people—in particular trans women—have been shot, beaten, found dead in lakes, and even “burned beyond recognition.”
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The Democrats, of course, have latched onto the transgender hate-crime double hoax (they are not "transgender" and they are not being killed en masse): At LGBTQ Town Hall, Democratic Presidential Candidates Vow to Confront Violence Against Trans Women.
It’s likely that one of the guys in the Lawrence v. Texas case murdered his boyfriend (he was accused of physically abusing).
Domestic violence among homosexual couples is not uncommon.
Something advocates who speak out about violence against women don’t like to discuss. So they really aren’t concerned about women when it is women hitting women.
HRC isn’t about “human rights”. It is a homofascist organization. And decidedly anti-Christian.
Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic? (No)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They obviously want the answer to be yes.
Can that be accommodated in fact?
Replace “Murder” with “Self-Mutilation” and the answer is Yes.
No, they still have a right to life.
In order to Get Stuff in America you must first formulate and then popularize a Persecution Narrative, then use media to infect dullards with it.
Then you GET STUFF.
If one presents himself convincingly as a woman to a young horny guy and the guy finds out he’s been deceived, don’t act surprised at all if the tranny gets at a minimum beaten to a pulp. The shock is there are people who will defend the tranny insanity.
No, they still have a right to life.>>
But they want a murder epidemic in our peaceful, free country.. I mean we are not talking about a right to life of the unborn here, but of adults who are seeking to die as martyrs for a cause. Can’t we make it simple for them to find it? Send them to Afghanistan or Saudi as emissaries for their community or something like that?
There is a reason why none of these murders are gone into with any detail.
We hear tons from these freaks about “they are killing us everyday!!”, but you would think these would have been tales of some person just minding their own business, and then someone just out of the blue shot them.
This is to strengthen their victim status. The only claim they have to victimhood is that some normal people refuse to go along with the “individual pronoun” nonsense.
Ho hum. As if there are no longer any real stories that need to be told that the msm has to make up this hooey in their little cubicles.
A) The "trans" make up a tiny, tiny, very tiny portion of our population and, thus, we should quit trying to change all of laws and society to accommodate them. Or,
B) they aren't getting a high percentage of murders relative to their population in society.
It's mathematically impossible for there to be both a whole bunch of trans to worry about changing our laws over, and a whole bunch of trans being murdered in epidemic proportion. Obviously the left is lying about something. (As is always obvious.)
Mark
bkmk
"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency ."
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