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0 pointskragen1y ago0 comments

she had to go to significant pains to conceal her former name because it revealed her former sex, and trans women are at significant risk of getting lynched, even more so 50 years ago

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throwaway726381y ago

Obviously homicides are bad, and life isn't yet a bed of roses for the trans community but ... as far as I know the trans homicide rate in the USA is lower than the cis one, unless you make strong underreporting assumptions [1]?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551594/

kragenOP1y ago

yes, in the usa right now things are not bad; they have improved dramatically, especially in the last ten years. still, even within the usa, i think the statistics you're looking at are skewed by a variety of demographic factors

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throwaway726381y ago

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551594/

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