Rebecca + Your Authors @nothefunkind Adult human female. GC. Against female & homosexual erasure. Women’s sex-based rights shall be maintained. Don’t follow if easily offended by the truth.

It’s very common to hear that trans people, and more particularly transwomen, are increasingly at risk of violence, murder, sexual assault and suicide.



So I looked into the available statistics to check if GC folx really are responsible for literally killing transwomen.

Firstly, hates crimes (criminal offences that are perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice).

According to this research https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8537/CBP-8537.pdf …, transphobic hate crimes are quite marginalised in the UK, although differences in group sizes obviously play a part.

Homophobic hate crimes vastly outnumber transphobic hate crimes. However, we do notice an unprecedented rise of hate crimes against trans people. In England and Wales, there was a 427% increase in transphobic hate crimes between 2011 and 2018.

According to the BBC ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-48756370 …), this increase is ‘largely due to better reporting and recording’. Thus, the fact that ‘misgendering’, ‘deadnaming’ or ‘refusing to chant TWAW’ are now considered threats to trans people’s safety might have something to do with it.

When it comes to murders, the persistent myth that TW are killed at an alarming rate all across the world is very easily debunked. Between 2017 and 2018, 369 trans people were killed worldwide, almost half of them in Brazil, as shows this report: https://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TvT_TMM_TDoR2018_SimpleTable_EN.pdf ….

Just to give you an idea, here is Brazil’s murder rate compared with the rest of the world.

In the United States/Canada, 219 trans people were killed between 2008 and 2018. In the UK, 10 trans people were killed between these years: https://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TvT_TMM_TDoR2018_Tables_EN.pdf ….

Out of the 1059 trans people who were killed worldwide between 2008 and 2018 and whose source of income was reported, 646 were sex workers. Moreover, 905 trans people out of the 2982 who were killed between these years were murdered on the street.

In comparison, 58% of the 87.000 women who were murdered worldwide in 2017 were killed by an intimate partner or a relative, according to this report: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/GSH2018/GSH18_Gender-related_killing_of_women_and_girls.pdf …. TW are especially at risk of violence from sex buyers, women are at risk of violence in their own home.

I also have been told quite frequently that TW are somehow more exposed to sexual violence than women. Transequality’s survey ( https://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF …) reports that 37% of TW were victims of sexual assaults in their lifetime, in the US in 2015.

It’s less than all women AND gay/bi men, according to US data from 2010: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_sofindings.pdf …. Bisexual women and men were found to be particularly at risk of sexual violence (74.9% and 47.4% respectively reported one or more sexual assaults in their lifetime).

Finally, when it comes to suicide, the stats we currently have mostly come from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf …. They were the ones who found that ‘more than 40% of trans people have attempted suicide’, a quite famous trope in here.

This number was notoriously debunked by *themselves* in the ‘Limitations‘ part. In a nutshell:



1. The findings are inflated.



2. The sample is not representative.



3. The reasons behind the suicide attempts are unknown.



4. We do not have the data for completed suicide.

As they wrote themselves: ‘We should be especially careful not to extrapolate findings about suicide attempts among transgender adults to imply conclusions about completed suicide in this population’.

This thread does not include stats regarding employment, housing and other types of discrimination that trans people do face on a regular basis. However, it’s worth noting that TRAs do not seem to care about these forms of mistreatment, as they are currently busy smearing women.

Not believing TWAW is not what causes TW to be killed or to commit suicide. Mental health, economic instability and homophobia are all factors which provide an explanation for the stats.



No one can end prejudice by coercing people into saying things they won’t ever believe.

Gender critical feminism/theory is *not* the problem. The problem is homophobic and violent men. The problem is gender expectations. The problem is poor mental health care. The problem is sex work.



We have to be able the name the problem to tackle it.

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