I have to avoid reading these accounts - these few are the tip of the iceberg - because they’re simultaneously depressing and alarming. As statistics show “trans” die of violence at a tenth the rate of the general population in the US (as opposed to what we are told by GLAAD for instance) my instinct to calculate rates of violence in this population to general population is almost irresistible.
You don’t often see a straight man holding a baseball bat in a photo declaring publicly they are going after women, or photographed in groups attacking women in event crowds, or calling for crowds to attack women in videos. In Charlottesville of course a woman was killed by supremacists for her views, but that was unusual.
I have to avoid reading these accounts - these few are the tip of the iceberg - because they’re simultaneously depressing and alarming. As statistics show “trans” die of violence at a tenth the rate of the general population in the US (as opposed to what we are told by GLAAD for instance) my instinct to calculate rates of violence in this population to general population is almost irresistible.
You don’t often see a straight man holding a baseball bat in a photo declaring publicly they are going after women, or photographed in groups attacking women in event crowds, or calling for crowds to attack women in videos. In Charlottesville of course a woman was killed by supremacists for her views, but that was unusual.
Good article. Made me rethink my instincts.