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2019-12-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Transgender homicide rate 'remarkably low' despite cries of 'national epidemic'

[WASHINGTONTIMES] Calls to combat a purported epidemic of killings targeting transgender people, especially women of color, are rising, even though U.S. data indicates that people who identify as members of the opposite sex are less likely to end up as homicide victims than their non-transgender counterparts.

Kentucky State University associate professor Wilfred Reilly found that the 2017 homicide death rate for transgender people was about 1.48 per 100,000, less than a third of the overall murder rate of about 5 per 100,000 and a fraction of the rate for men in general (6.68) or black people (18.8).

“All of these large groups — blacks, poor whites, Latinos, men — have a murder rate that’s an order of magnitude higher than the transgender murder rate. That’s what I found,” Mr. Reilly, who teaches political science at the historically black college, told The Washington Times. “The transgender murder rate seems to be remarkably low.”

Posted by Fred 2019-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 I think this is because transgender people don't traffic drugs. A huge percentage of murders in the US are due to disputes in drug traffic.

Transgenders may use drugs, especially the gender impact kind but these are purchased legally.

Posted by lord garth 2019-12-10 06:32|| 2019-12-10 06:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes but transgender activists are running around suggesting they are being hunted, so its good to have the statistics published.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-10 08:07|| 2019-12-10 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course, the suicide rate is much higher.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-10 10:16|| 2019-12-10 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Recently the head of Johns Hopkins' Psychiatry Department blasted the transgender movement as based on complete nonsense.

He pointed out that "gender dysphoria" does not exist; the condition is indistinguishable from garden-variety clinical depression.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-10 10:41|| 2019-12-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

Walt Heyer talks about it at this website.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-10 11:21|| 2019-12-10 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 If you think you're a victim, regardless of facts, then you just have to make things up. And the media for the most part are happy to amplify your hysteria and your make-believe.

Posted by Tom 2019-12-10 15:16|| 2019-12-10 15:16|| Front Page Top

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