Data on violence against trans people & women

What he needs to focus on is that people are at risk from men regardless of any gender breakdown or self ID it is mainly men doing most of the violence. Why is he feeling the need to go down this route anyway? That would be my greatest concern.

Tbh, if he wants to make that claim, it's up to him to prove it. Ask him to give you the actual data and tell him you'll be happy to be proved wrong if he can find it. Let him spend his time trying to find evidence for his claims. Maybe he'll learn not to spout nonsense without checking the facts first.

When he says trans people, who does he mean - transwomen or transmen? There'll be different rates for them. In some countries, tw are disproportionately represented in groups who sell sex, while I don't think tm are. Selling one's body is always dangerous.

Most murdered men are murdered by other men. Do we count tw in this group (I do) or do we count them as women?

All very muddy.

If its not even possible to work out what the rate is because there are so few incidents - even when counting across the entire country and across decades - then it's not a significant issue.
By contrast, violence against women rates are known and verifiable because it is so frequent and common.

It's an odd point to make, as men in general are at a higher risk of being victims of violent crime than women*.

Does this mean that men in general should be given shelter in women's spaces?

It's an off-the-shelf comment, a trope propagated by TRAs, I doubt much thought has gone into it. A key plank of the TRA platform is that the fears and anxieties of women and girls are irrational and worthy of derision.

*obviously doesn't apply in the specific contexts of domestic violence and sexual violence

There are differences across the world

For example in the americas transo
wmen often become prostitutes and as such are murdered at a much higher rate than women or men ( the same rate as none transgender prostitutes however )

And we might expect on the uk that transwomen are murdered at a higher rate than women - it would not be surprising if it was the same rate as none transgender men

I cannot help you with precise statistics for comparison, but these articles may be of interest more generally.

TRANS MURDER MONITORING
https://gendercriticalwoman.blog/2022/01/04/trans-murder-monitoring-2/

https://unherd.com/2022/01/the-truth-about-trans-murders/

I suggest your dh has a word with vast majority of perpetrators (men) rather than expecting women to put themselves at greater risk by opening up our spaces

One thing to bear in mind is that "risk" isn't the same thing as "incidence".

Having had 0 of your chickens killed by foxes or dogs in the last 5 years doesn't mean you don't have to be worried about foxes or dogs killing your chickens.

Women and society lessen incidence of violence against women by taking extra protective steps - like separating men from women in various scenarios - because women are at greater risk. And also because it's easy - you can effectively protect half the population with one simple measure - keeping women apart from men. But you can't so easily keep men apart from men.

In terms of incidence, violence against men is higher than against women. And violence against men who say they're women tends to be similar as other men. Where it isn't, it's because of other factors - eg in South America there are huge numbers of "transwomen" in prostitution - increased risk the same as women involved in it. In the UK/US most "transwomen" tend to be relatively well-off/middle-class, so are at lower risk then the general male population.

What's notable in the UK is that "transwomen" offenders outnumber "transwomen" victims - something that's not true for men in general. So the victim stats are similar, but offender stats are not.

Well his maths are wrong for a start.... if he reckons 1% of the population is trans (ONS doesn't agree) then as that's as that's a fiftieth of the female population, the murder rate would be a fiftieth, so 2 per year. Not 1 in the last ten years or whatever it is.