Trans people are killed at also literally record breaking numbers every year!
In 2017, 25 transgendered people were killed in America. The year before that 23, and the year before that 22. You make it sound like transgendered people are being targeted and murdered en masse for being trans. That's not the reality we're living in.
Yeah I mean it’s not like they almost got denied from serving in the military, have to deal with bathroom bills in multiples states, and 50% of trans people have been assaulted or raped by a romantic partner. Totally not targeted at all.
The number is going UP and you’re trying to tell me we should focus on the problem LESS?
Again, you said that murder rates of trans people are breaking records every year. Did you also know that murder rates in general are going up each year in America, at a higher rate than trans related murders?
And I never said we should focus on the "problem" less, I am insinuating that you are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Putting quotes around problem reveals how you feel about this.
According to the most recent FBI data available, an estimated 15,696 murders occurred in the United States in 2015, or 4.9 murders per 100,000 people. And while this was the highest murder rate in six years (compared to a range of 4.4 to 4.8 murders per 100,000 each year since 2009, when the figure was 5 per 100,000), it’s less than half the historical high of 10.2 in 1980.
FBI statistics show, in fact, that the 2015 murder rate was among the lowest of the past 47 years, and indeed the lowest of any year between 1965 and 2009.
“Mountain out of a molehill”?! How can you be so fucking callous about this?
More than a third of all transgender people in the UK have been victims of a hate crime in the past 12 months, according to new research.
Campaigners believe the statistics could be the "tip of the iceberg" with the majority of victims not feeling safe in reporting their experiences to the authorities.
LGBT charity Stonewall is now calling for a full review into hate crime legislation saying that it falls behind on trans and other LGBT issues.
Stonewall says two in five (41 per cent) of trans people have experienced a hate crime because of their gender identity in the past 12 months, with that figure shooting up to 53 per cent for young trans people aged between 18 and 24.
The new research conducted by YouGov on behalf of the charity, also found that four in five (79 per cent) of trans people did not report their crimes due to a perceived lack of support or fear of further discrimination.
Trans people are twice as likely to be victim of a hate crime than other members of the LGBT community, with Stonewall reporting that one in five LGBT people overall have experienced a hate crime in the past year.
Figures also show that the volume of transphobic hate crime referrals from the police decreased by 11 per cent from 98 in 2015-2016 to 87 in 2016-2017.
Charlie Craggs, a leading trans activist, author and founder of the Nail Transphobia group, told The Independent she had "lost count" of the number of times she and her trans friends had experienced a hate crime but not reported it.
"There's no much faith in the police within our community," she said. "They have a history of transphobia and having to go to a police station and be misgendered, judged or treated like you brought this on yourself is the last thing you feel like doing. It's not like much is going to happen to the person who did attack you, anyway."
And in America:
Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, continue to be targeted in vicious attacks all throughout this country. The simple act of walking down the street is cause for real fear and anti-transgender political rhetoric only serves to embolden those who harass and intimidate people simply because of who they are,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “The tragic impact of hate crimes is felt by families, friends and entire communities, creating fear and instability that ripple across the country. With a wave of bias-motivated harassment in the wake of the recent election, HRC will continue to push for more accurate reporting of hate crimes to the FBI so that we truly understand the full scope of the violence.”
Current statistics only provide a partial snapshot of hate crimes in America because reporting these incidents to the FBI is not mandatory. In fact, while the number of hate crimes reported increased from 2015 to 2014, the number of jurisdictions reporting decreased from 15,494 to 14,997.
Thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country did not submit data – including jurisdictions with populations of more than 250,000 people. The vast majority (88%) of the agencies that did participate reported zero hate crimes. This means that law enforcement in those participating agencies – including cities with large populations – affirmatively reported to the FBI that no hate crime incidents occurred in their jurisdictions. Approximately 3,400 jurisdictions failed to report any data, including 21 cities with populations with over 100,000 people.
The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that kids in grades K-12 who identified as transgender or gender non-conforming reported high rates of bullying and violence at school: 78 percent reported harassment, 35 percent reported physical assault, and 12 percent reported sexual violence. Even more disturbing is the fact that, for 31 percent of these kids and teens, harassment came at the hands of teachers and school staff.
A 2013 report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) found that transgender people are at a higher risk of homicide than other LGBTQ people. In 2013, trans victims and survivors made up 13 percent of anti-LGBTQ hate violence reports to the NCAVP, and yet transgender women made up 72 percent of anti-LGBTQ homicide victims. Trans women of color — who accounted for 67 percent of anti-LGBTQ homicide victims — were particularly at risk.
The NCAVP report found that trans people are 3.7 times more likely to experience police violence than cisgender survivors and victims of anti-LGBT violence. The risk is higher for trans women, who are four times more likely than other survivors to have experienced police violence.
The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey describes harassment at work as “a near universal experience” for transgender and gender non-conforming employees, with 90 percent of respondents reporting that they had been harassed at work or forced to take “protective actions” (like hiding their gender identity) in order to avoid harassment.
Forty-seven percent of respondents said that they had experienced “an adverse job action” (such as not getting hired or promoted, or being fired) due to their being trans or gender nonconforming. Twenty-six percent reported losing their jobs because of their gender status, with a significantly higher rate of job loss for trans people of color.
The unemployment rate among trans people is twice the national average, and 44 percent of trans people report being underemployed — key issues that lead to high rates of poverty among trans people.
The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that trans people are four times more likely than the general population to have an annual income of less than $10,000.
Trans people experience homelessness at a rate of twice the national average; at the same time, they are less than half as likely to own a home as the average American. Housing discrimination is a major problem, according to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, with 19 percent of trans people saying that they have been refused housing and 11 percent saying they’ve been evicted due to being transgender or gender non-conforming.
Forty-one percent of the trans respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey said that they had attempted suicide at some point in their lives — a percentage that is more than 25 times higher than that of the general population. Trans people who experienced housing discrimination, job discrimination, rejection by their families, bullying in school, physical violence, or sexual assault had an even higher rate of suicide attempts.
Tellingly, a report by the Williams Institute found that trans people who are able to maintain strong relationships with their families after coming out have a much lower suicide rate of 33 percent (which is, granted, still much higher than the national average)