- Joined
- Nov 16, 2021
The vast majority of trans murders occur to housing insecure individuals, or sex workers. It's hard to find good studies on the rate of sex worker deaths relating to their size in the population, but if you look at the murders themselves, well, there's a pretty clear pattern:Yeah, the way they use these death statistics to manipulate public opinion is infuriating. If you take a microsecond to think about the actual numbers, they're actually less likely to be murdered than normal people. And all trans murders are apparently hate crimes, the victim being trans is never just an incidental fact.
We found that women accounted for the clear majority of victims (105), with only two male and three trans victims. Overall, the vast majority of victims (85) were also street-based sex workers.
Link
So, were they killed for being trans, or were they killed for being women? Trans women who finance their transition through sex work used to be primarily HSTS types, so they are very often feminine gay men who pick up male clients. Some of the deaths are definitely gay panic, but some might just be because they passed well enough and got murdered by a drugged up john. It's really not the transness that's the core of their vulnerability though.
Which is great when you see AGP fetishists using these deaths as a way to bully lesbians into letting them creep.