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A councillor who was investigated over a possible breach of Cornwall Council’s code of conduct will face no further action. The council received ten complaints concerning comments Cllr Dulcie Tudor made about trans people.
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The complaints largely stemmed from a post Cllr Tudor made on social media which said: “Men claiming trans identity are not more vulnerable than women and girls. This is what they claim but it’s simply not true. A woman dies at the hands of a man every three days in this jurisdiction. Nine men who pretend to be women have been murdered in the last ten years in the UK.”
A woman every three days in that one jurisdiction, compared to nine men in the entire UK in ten years. That’s quite the gap.
I’m not even sure about that nine figure. Sounds high to me. The only homicide of a trans-identifying person in the UK I’d ever heard of in the last several years was the highly-publicized case of a teenage male murdered by a pair of bullies, and the motive was not related to his trans status. I’d be quite surprised if there were any other cases, because the activists have a tendency to scream at the top of their lungs whenever it happens. (They make so much noise whenever it happens to make up for the fact that it happens so rarely.)
Or maybe there were other cases but the specifics were so unseemly that the activists preferred not to call attention to them. Gang- and drug-related violence, that kind of thing. Garden-variety male-on-male homicide…
Arty, I’ve read about a couple who were black, M to F, prostitutes. In short, three groups (F, B, Prostitute) who are all killed at higher numbers than trans. The last time I read about it, the motivation wasn’t known, so there is no reason to assume it was ‘because they were trans’, though a distinct possibility it was because they were male, and the customer expected female.