369 transpeople murdered? Channel 4 checked.

Ah ok :)

It's good to see Channel 4 stepping up a gear and actually looking beneath the myths and distortions.

I agree. And it's about time a mainstream media outlet bit the bullet and did just this. Ch4 has just gone up a bit of a notch in my estimation (I still don't trust them after the totally skewed Genderquake "debate" but, hey....they could still prove themselves)

VotingFox that made sense if you put the stress on 'supposed' rather than 'media'.

Thank you C4 for doing what the media are supposed to

Gonna have to point out to you that Channel 4 is a constituent of the media...

I've only just started to notice the amount of 'stick' and hostility coming from TRAs towards Channel 4.

In the week before the 'Trans Kids: We Need to Talk' documentary was aired, the TRAS were already besmirching Channel 4's past record on trans issues. They mentioned Genderquake (the reality show featuring transgender people in a house share) and Cathy Newman's handling of debate on What Makes a Woman? (in which a green party member pointed out that the brave and stunning Munroe Bergdorf had a penis and called them a 'he').

From a pro-women's rights perspective, Channel 4 did not cover itself in glory during that week and was exceedingly timid in probing the narrative beneath the mantras like TWAW. From the TRAs point of view, the Trans week had been a disaster and made them less inclined to 'justify their existence' in future TV specials.

It's good to see Channel 4 stepping up a gear and actually looking beneath the myths and distortions.

Interesting

The ‘woke’ like to push the idea that they are loving and understanding and everyone else is a hateful bigot but the stats don’t seem to bear that out.

Crikey. C4 seem to be doing some serious thinking - even if it's thinking that's been done previously elsewhere. This is more critical thinking than I've seen anywhere in the BBC.

Sue "I feel like a teenage girl" Pascoe must be furious.

twitter.com/FactCheck/status/1065977566404710401

A combination of "nothing to see here" and tumbleweed. Facts and TRAs are like garlic and vampires*.

• and no, this isn't a comment saying that TRAs are just the same as the blood-sucking undead

I note btw that they now have individual religions in the hate crime figures. This shows that Jews are more likely to to be targets of hate crimes for their identity than transgender people are for theirs, and indeed the most likely religion overall to be targeted. Perhaps Messrs. Corbyn, Madigan, et al should make the focus of their campaign against phobias on protecting Jews?

(AIR the recent Scottish anti-hate-crime campaign centred a transwoman over and above all other forms of possible target.)

Sheila Jeffreys states in this video m.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQtyGU766I that TW are into SM, are the men that accept TWAW also into SM, is this why there is more violence in these male relationships?

If transwomen are more at risk from their partners we have to acknowledge that there’s a higher incidence of violence committed by men who accept that transwomen are women.

Interesting.

C4 late, and wrong.

The names are available on the TransRespect website. If they bothered to cross-reference them.

And already fact-checked in much more detail here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3080711-UK-transgender-murder-rate

To that thread I would add the names 'Naomi Damian Hersi', murdered by Jesse McDonald in March 2018.

The 2016 murder seems to have been added retrospectively, as it did not appear in the contemporary report, so we are essentially speculating as no name for the UK appears on the transrespect site. William Lound is the likely candidate here, however William was not trans! William was a gay man who sometimes wore women's clothing. His case has been discussed here before after some very silly person tried to imply William was actually a woman at birth. No! William was a gay man who sometimes wore women's clothing for sex and this apparently enraged the mentally ill person who murdered him.

So Channel 4 should make some effort to verify the identity of these supposed murders of transpeople, as in fact two were not murdered, and one was not even trans.

Piss poor work Channel 4, piss poor.

TLDR; transwomen are more at risk from men who accept they are women than men who do not.

Channel 4 has done more research than the Metro.

And the BBC.

From that report:

The limited data we’re working with suggests that in the UK at least, the “trans murder rate” is lower than the UK average.

So very unlikely to be murdered by a transphobe, then; still less by a ‘terf’.

But – again based on unofficial figures – it appears that trans people are more likely to experience other violent crimes, for example domestic abuse.

So more likely to be assaulted by a partner, ie, someone who nominally accepts that they are women.

When we look at domestic violence committed by men we don’t normally ignore the fact it is committed by men. We don’t simply report it as crimes committed on women, we look at the perpetrator.

If transwomen are more at risk from their partners we have to acknowledge that there’s a higher incidence of violence committed by men who accept that transwomen are women.

That won't go down well in certain quarters.

An interesting side note coming from this: if the insistence is that TWAW (and TWAM) how can the experience of transpeople actually be recorded and measured? This does a disservice to EVERYONE.

Very impressed with C4 for this.
Thank you C4 for doing what the media are supposed to

Facts are a social construct.

They don't like facts.
They'll be after channel 4 for wrong think.... again.....