Even uses the word "relatively". Amazing.
if I remember right if you look at stats for trans people in the US and UK, when it comes to being attacked/murdered it's safer to be trans than almost any other demographic
if I were to guess as to why, it'd be that the act of being trans requires a certain amount of privilege, i.e. if you're just struggling to survive and at risk of violence you don't have time to think about your gender identity
also you're more likely to have become trans through online communities and are thus terminally online/a homebody yourself, less of a social butterfly out in the world/traveling where potentially dangerous shit happens
Just look at the stats from Atlanta above. The current genocide over there is progressing at a rate of <1 per month.
Assuming there is no major bias in Atlanta, the average % of the US population that identifies as transgender is ~0.5%. With about 300 total murders per month, statistically there should be 1.5 transgender person murdered each month in Atlanta.
There's no way Atlanta has 300 murders per month. Per year maybe...
170 homicides in Atlanta 2022
32 trans people died in U.S in 2022 (pinknews)
26,031 non-trans homicides in 2021 (can't find 2022)
So if 0.5% of population is trans and the murder rates was equal, you'd expect to see about 130 trans homicides
And that 32 includes gender nonconforming, so whether they should be included as trans who knows
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_genocide
First sentence-
Transgender genocide or trans genocide is a term used by scholars and activists to describe an elevated level of systematic discrimination and violence against transgender people.[citation needed]
In the "See Also" portion:
White genocide conspiracy theory
Also, from a Jan 2023 study posted to JAMA:
Previous research11,16-18,20,21,28 has found mortality from external causes is 2 to 19 times higher in TGD persons than cisgender persons. When we compared all TGD people combined with cisgender people, we saw 3 to 5 times greater increased mortality from suicide or homicide and 2 to 5 times increased mortality from accidental poisonings. However, when we separately compared transfeminine individuals and transmasculine individuals with cisgender persons, we found an increased risk of external causes of death compared with cisgender women only. Historically, across all age groups, cisgender women have had lower mortality rates due to external causes of death compared with cisgender men.29 De Blok et al11 found a 3- to 7-fold increased risk of suicide among transgender women compared with cisgender people, but no significant increase among transgender men. Forty-one percent of TGD respondents in the US National Transgender Discrimination Survey reported attempting suicide, a proportion much greater than the 5% of US adults and the 10% to 20% of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults who reported ever attempting suicide.4 Factors associated with suicide attempts included experiencing minority stress related to comorbid health conditions, alienation from family, and experiencing discrimination or marginalization at school or work or when accessing health care.
AND
The murder of TGD people has been increasing globally, particularly for transgender women, who account for 96% of homicides among TGD people.
It's important to understand the actual context behind the statistically provable increased rate of mortality for Trans folk.
1) A large portion of that increase is due to increased risk of death by suicide
2) The increase due to external factors is only found when compared against the population of Cis women
3) 96% of homicides in the Trans community are in Trans women (MTF)
4) 58% of trans people murdered are sex workers
5) There is a greater risk of alcohol abuse, HIV, and accidental overdose among the trans population
6) There is some limited evidence to indicate that long term hormone replacement therapy can lead to a small but statistically significant increase in mortality
You can play with the statistics in many ways but there are a few things that immediately jump out when looking at an overview.
1) The murder rate among sex workers is ~200% greater than the general population
2) The suicide rate among men is higher than the general population (importantly, the suicide rate among Trans men is lower than cis Men or Trans Women, being nearly the same as cis women)
All of the indications above lead me to believe that the increase in mortality is not caused by an organized effort to commit genocide against the population, but by an overall increase in the prevalence of mental illness, the "minority stress model", and statistical tricks that compare a population that is made up of mostly biologically male Trans women to the population of cis people. Men, in general, have a greater risk of mortality already. If you isolate the FTM Trans male population you find that their mortality rate, while higher, is not nearly has high as the MTF Trans woman population.
I don't think the activist community is necessarily ignoring the root causes of trans mortality, statistics show that gender affirming care reduces risk of death by suicide by a fair amount (it doesn't bring the population back to the mean cis population however), but it does obfuscate the actual causes of the increase in mortality by associating it with anti-Trans social and political causes.
