321 trans people murdered this year, new report finds
321 trans people murdered this year, new report finds
A new report to coincide with Trans Day of Remembrance shows a rise in racism in the number of murders in the past year.
That seems really low to me for a global number, especially given how trans people are criminalized and villified in so many countries.
I wonder how much higher that rate is than the national average when accounting for demographics.
That was my first thought too but the total is globally, so it seems like quite a small number even when considering trans people account for ~1.4% of the world population which would be about 113,036,000 people.
Man that's fucked up.
"Good news! Proportionally, less trans people were murdered!"
They're definitely a small part of the population, and rates are always more informative than raw numbers.
That said, we know that people are targetted for violence simply for being trans.
A rise in racism? Transphobia isn't racism, right? It's equally as short-sighted and fucking stupid, but it's not the same.
The article mentions that 80% of those murdered were also affected by racism. In Europe almost half of those murdered were refugees or immigrants.
They're a racial minority or migrant. That increases their risk.
They're trans. That increases their risk even further.
They're also often sex workers. That increases their risk even further.
Basically super vulnerable and marginalised minorities, who often can't turn to the police for help.
Isn’t that a lower rate than cis people?
Like worldwide, even if only 0.1% of people are trans (an intentional underestimate for conservative numbers) that’s a murder rate of 4.3 per 100k people. The worldwide average is 7.5.
And how many cis men were killed in the same period worldwide? Numbers like this are meaningless if not normalized.
Not that it's a competition, but the article mentions this number being far lower than the actual number, so you can't make a fair comparison.
This is basically a case of some countries and places giving enough of a shit about trans people being murdered, to bother recording how prevalent it is for the first time. Plenty of places, given these are often sex workers, they'd just let them rot in a ditch and mark it down as unknown causes when they find the remains.
A lot of male homicide is also gang related. That's different than being murdered by a client or partner, because of your gender identity. A bit like how Jewish people may be less likely to be murdered, but that doesn't mean it's not noteworthy when someone burns down a synagogue and kills Jews because of their ethnicity.
You see this all over the place with how things are culturally counted. Like how driveby shootings are not counted by a lot of US statistical data as mass shooting in the US because they are more interested in the phenomenon of a targeted usual murder suicide of a very specific terrorist style execution... but other countries will record drive bys as notable mass shootings for their data.
A lot of places have law enforcement that are very invested in not participating in things that could harm their reputations so not participating in recording data points that assist in the conclusion that a genocide is occurring makes it easier to sweep issues under the rug.
This is simply about trans people beong murdered. That is the discussion. Cis is not relevant in this moment. Other times yes, but not now.
I keep saying this: marginalized and discriminated people are the best ones to own firearms.
Don't trust a society that hates you to protect you.
Then why isn't America the safest country in the world?
You're not repeating some deep wisdom to enlighten poor oppressed idiots who just don't know how cool guns are, you're repeating marketing slogans for a gun lobby who worked out they can sell hero fantasies to leftists too.