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Topic subjectI've seen this before, and it kinda draws attention to its own flaws
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13352643, I've seen this before, and it kinda draws attention to its own flaws
Posted by kayru99, Fri Oct-18-19 04:30 PM
Which are glaring (you don't know if you can identify who is trans? So how can you accurately aggregate data?)
First off that number about trans life expectency is hella contentious. Every place that quotes it never gives the data to support it, or how the info was aggregated. That's a problem.

Re: the specific info in your doc, sounds like the problem of American poverty for poor Black males.
IPV in poor, Black communities looks the same, no matter what "identity" people claim...either killed by partners/acquintances with untreated issues or victims are engaged in illegal activity to survive, and encountering dangerous people/circumstances as a result.
the vast majority of the the trans killed were Black male sex workers in poverty using sex work and other illegal activity to fund themselves/their medical needs.

Instead of empty liberal moralizing, changing policies to alleviate poverty, provide healthcare and housing for poor Black people (including males, and males who consider themselves "trans") would have saved the lives of virtually all those victims.

ALSO, the fact that the number of trans murders is that low (and in America, any national, multi-ethnic demo with under 70 murders in a year, much less THREE years, is low)?
People are rightfully gonna look sideways at "trans activism" that uses that data as a jumping off point.


You should read some gender critical feminist work around the problems with trans theory in re: to women, the gay community & legal challenges to the protections that women have gained.

And some Black sociology about IPV in our communities