A really important day
March 31 this year, Essex Police were busy marking and commemorating and making aware:
And yesterday was trans day of remembrance, with another round of social media announcing and posing for photos and Raising Awareness.
But women? Bah. Karens, all of them; Essex Police can’t be bothered with them.
In the US they’re claiming 45 trans and non-binary people were killed this year, and in the next breath saying it was due to “systemic anti-transgender stigma and hate, pervasive discrimination, disproportionate criminalization, and marginalization and exclusion of gender minorities,” with violence against transgender communities “heightened today due to a historic spike in legislation targeting transgender people for discriminatory and unjust treatment.”
And yet I don’t see any personal stories where trans people were murdered specifically because they were trans, as opposed to more common factors like domestic disputes, arguments with neighbors, being in high-risk occupations like prostitution or drug trafficking, racism, or even just stigma against effeminate males. I would think that if they had them, they’d have been prominently featured in news stories. But I couldn’t find anything.
As for England, I don’t think there were any murdered trans people to remember.
According to many of the people replying to the Essex police there have been zero murders of trans people in the UK in almost 3 years.
The same cannot be said for women.
According to Statista, 3573 women were murdered in the US in 2020 (I haven’t been able to find statistics for this year yet). That is 76X the number of trans they are claiming for this year. It is also well above the rate of trans murders per capita, but my figures aren’t clear on that, since I am not sure what percentage of the population really is trans. Too many misleading stats out there to be sure.
The number of women killed in the UK was more than 200. With no trans killed.
For trans activists (and police) the number of women murdered seems to be little more than wallpaper, the unremarkable background radiation that’s inexplicably, somehow, always just there.
Yes, but the trans women who were murdered at a lower rate than actual women were more oppressed, because they are the most oppressed ever. So they count at whatever multiple is necessary to make that problem seem bigger.
It’s like when the murder rate of tourists in a city gets too high. As long as the murder rate is kept among residents, nobody cares as much.
Papito, and the very fact of not being murdered at the rate of cis women? Well, that’s just another example of cis privilege! (Like when PZ once implied that getting cervical cancer was cis privilege.)