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Data on violence against trans people & women

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TangoTarantella · 10/06/2023 12:33

This morning my DP (male) said that trans people were at greater risk of male violence than women. I pointed out that around 2 women a week are murdered by men in the UK (is that just by current or former partners?) and the figure for trans people was around 0. He said that if around 1% of the population are trans then at the same rate of murder of women you’d expect 0 to 1 trans murder per year so therefore in line. Kind of disproving his own point but I’d like some solid data to end this debate with him.

I haven’t been able to find any data on murder rates in trans people or the overall % of trans people in the population. Can anyone point me to any? It has really upset me that he came out with this statement so confidently and I would like to show him that he’s wrong.

Obviously there is more to violence than murder and I imagine women are at far great risk of rape/sexual assault from men than transwomen are. But are there any data on that?

Please help me to educate him otherwise he may be heading for the bin.

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MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 11/06/2023 10:12

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 09:53

Yes there is. The hate crime statistics show that they are.

No, because - as has been repeatedly pointed out to you - hate crime statistics don't treat crimes against women as hate crimes.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 10:11

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:07

There have been FOIs to police services which have replied with the exact opposite. Please evidence your view.

Ummm ok
England by sex
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-trans-crime-statistics-grc-birth-sex-b2056345.html
Scotland by gender
https://theferret.scot/trans-victims-of-crime-still-self-id-home-office/

As I said there is NO consistent way in which gender identity is recorded by police.

There is only male or female. And there is no way to tell who is transgender and who isn’t because gender & sex are not collected separately by any police force.

Police told to record trans people by birth sex in crime figures

‘This is a signal to trans victims of crime that they will be misgendered if they seek support’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-trans-crime-statistics-grc-birth-sex-b2056345.html

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:10

The ONS hate crime statistics and please read the report to learn the definition, there is only one definition of a hate crime.

How about you tell us the definition you are using? Or link to it? There is not only one definition of "hate speech" which can be considered a crime. It's vague and catch all.

NotTodaySatanIHavePMS · 11/06/2023 10:10

I think this whole conversation can be boiled down to the statement that if transwomen feel vulnerable to male, then that is a male violence problem that men need to fix. I don't see why women have to be made to be human shields for transwomen - they're already fighting their own fight against male violence.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 10:08

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:05

Why not?

Because the author’s research consisted of “As far as I know”

Zero searches of databases. Zero requests for data from ONS/police. Zero searches of homicide victims and zero interviews with family members,

Nope, it’s those that I happen to have heard about and remember- “as far as I know”

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:07

There have been FOIs to police services which have replied with the exact opposite. Please evidence your view.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 10:05

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:04

Where do you think official statistics on the transgender status of homicide victims are recorded?

The TDOR figures are reported by people who knew the victims. Our police mostly have a policy of recording by "gender" rather than sex, or are you suggesting that the "trans status" of murder victims may be entirely secret?

No our police do not. The guidance says they have to record victim by sex, not gender.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:05

Why not?

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 10:04

😂 those aren’t reliable statistics.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:04

Where do you think official statistics on the transgender status of homicide victims are recorded?

The TDOR figures are reported by people who knew the victims. Our police mostly have a policy of recording by "gender" rather than sex, or are you suggesting that the "trans status" of murder victims may be entirely secret?

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 10:02

ArabeIIaScott · 11/06/2023 10:00

In the UK, women are not included in hate crime stats.

We are included in the average of all people,
We are included in hate crime statistics when we are victims due to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and so on.

Your constant comment makes no sense. The hate crime statistics show transgender people are at more risk than the average person. Full stop.

They do not show if transgender people are at higher risk or lower risk or same risk as women.

But it IS evidence that transgender people are vulnerable to violence.

TeaKlaxon · 11/06/2023 10:02

Transparent2 · 11/06/2023 09:56

This is a red herring. The old societal consensus, that men shouldn’t enter female spaces such as women’s toilets, didn’t depend much on men being challenged. It depended on the societal norm, which meant that for almost all men there was a strong taboo against entering those spaces. This taboo has been weakened significantly, and on the part of queer theorists that weakening has been deliberate. It remains to be seen whether the taboo will strengthen again, but for it to do so will require “progressives” to reconsider, this time bearing in mind the needs of women as well as transwomen.

And sex offenders are famously deterred by ‘taboo’ 🙄

ArabeIIaScott · 11/06/2023 10:02

TeaKlaxon · 11/06/2023 10:00

No we don’t.

Where do you think official statistics on the transgender status of homicide victims are recorded?

So we know how many women are killed each year and how many men.

We have no reliable stats on how many of them are transgender.

https://kareningalasmith.com/2021/04/21/counting-dead-trans-people/

Counting Dead Trans People

No, Angela Crawley, in the UK, it’s not the same and it’s not a greater risk In the Women and Equalities Select Committee on reform of the Gender Recognition Act on 21 April 2021, Angel…

https://kareningalasmith.com/2021/04/21/counting-dead-trans-people

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:01

In the UK, women are not included in hate crime stats.

Indeed. If the same kind of behaviour towards women was treated as hate crime, the picture would be different.

TeaKlaxon · 11/06/2023 10:00

ArabeIIaScott · 11/06/2023 09:47

We have evidence of the homicide rates of women and of transwomen. That's fairly stark.

No we don’t.

Where do you think official statistics on the transgender status of homicide victims are recorded?

So we know how many women are killed each year and how many men.

We have no reliable stats on how many of them are transgender.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 10:00

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 09:58

Yes there is. The hate crime statistics show that they are.

Which ones? What's the definition of "hate crime" being used? Because as we know, it can included having to see unpleasant tweets or hear people disagree with your personal ideology.

The ONS hate crime statistics and please read the report to learn the definition, there is only one definition of a hate crime. It’s not unpleasant tweets or disagreements on ideology.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 10:00

The comparison between a group of males, and women, is a false comparison. Are MTF trans people more at risk than other males? No.

ArabeIIaScott · 11/06/2023 10:00

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 09:56

Hate crime statistics track demographics that are particularly vulnerable to violence due to systemic discrimination. As in more vulnerable than the average of all people, which includes women.

In the UK, women are not included in hate crime stats.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 09:59

We do, however, have cast iron data that men who identify as women are far more likely to be incarcerated for sexual offences than other males, let alone women.

Red herring and irrelevant to rates of being a victim of violence.

Also just like arguing that Black people cant possibly be more likely to be murdered because they are an over-represented demographic in prison. When we know both are true and the second is influenced by systemic racism.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 09:58

Yes there is. The hate crime statistics show that they are.

Which ones? What's the definition of "hate crime" being used? Because as we know, it can included having to see unpleasant tweets or hear people disagree with your personal ideology.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 09:56

Trans women were between three and four times more likely than cisgender women to experience violent crime.

We're specifically talking about murder. Also I presume you have the comparison figures with other males? They aren't the same sex category as "cisgender women" so violence patterns are different.

In my exploration of US murder data year on year, MTF trans people are at considerably less risk of being murdered than other members of their sex and race. The highest homicide rate is black men, by some way. MTF trans people who are murdered are significantly likely to be black. White murders are rare. But statistically this group of black male people are less likely to be murdered than black male people as a group.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 09:56

ArabeIIaScott · 11/06/2023 09:48

Women aren't included in hate crime stats.

Hate crime statistics track demographics that are particularly vulnerable to violence due to systemic discrimination. As in more vulnerable than the average of all people, which includes women.

Transparent2 · 11/06/2023 09:56

TeaKlaxon · 10/06/2023 23:39

Talk me through why it wouldn’t work*

Obviously in this hypothetical world where we think sex offenders will be bound by the rules of who is allowed use which toilet when they decide how to carry out their crimes.

In that hypothetical world, when someone appears to be biologically male in the women’s toilets says, when challenged, ‘I’m a trans man and I have to use the women’s bathroom’ what happens then?

This is a red herring. The old societal consensus, that men shouldn’t enter female spaces such as women’s toilets, didn’t depend much on men being challenged. It depended on the societal norm, which meant that for almost all men there was a strong taboo against entering those spaces. This taboo has been weakened significantly, and on the part of queer theorists that weakening has been deliberate. It remains to be seen whether the taboo will strengthen again, but for it to do so will require “progressives” to reconsider, this time bearing in mind the needs of women as well as transwomen.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 09:54

ArabeIIaScott · 11/06/2023 09:47

We have evidence of the homicide rates of women and of transwomen. That's fairly stark.

No we don’t because the gender identity of homicide victims is not consistently recorded.

ReleasetheCrackHen · 11/06/2023 09:53

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 11/06/2023 09:51

What data exists indicates that transpeople are more vulnerable to violence than the average person

There is no data to suggest that in the U.K.

We do, however, have cast iron data that men who identify as women are far more likely to be incarcerated for sexual offences than other males, let alone women.

Yes there is. The hate crime statistics show that they are.

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