@MorganKitten "most rational feminists understand that it’s actually trans women who are the highest murder rate."
What rational people, feminists or otherwise, do is fact check. They don't blindly believe whatever they are told. That way, irrationality lies. So let's have a little look, shall we?
Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide produce the statistics for Trans Day Of Remembrance. I assume, therefore, that you accept their data and do not regard it as being biased.
They say that 9 trans people were killed in the UK between 2008 and 2017. So, averaging one a year. The trans community is conservatively estimated at 200,000 people. So the risk of being murdered for a trans person is around 1 in 200,000.
The total UK murder rate is a little over 1 murder to every 100,000 people. That means trans people have half the average murder risk.
Transrespect v Transphobia say that 28 American trans people were murdered in 2017/2018.
If the US trans population is 1.4 million, which is the presently accepted figure, that means 2 trans people are killed for every 100,000 trans people in the population.
The statistic across the whole population in the same year was 5.4 people killed for every 100,000 people. That would mean trans people in the US are more than twice as safe as the average.
If you read the Trans Day Of Remembrance lists - which I have done - you will realise the vast majority are sex workers in south and central America. Their deaths are hideous and appalling, as all murders are, but women sex workers in the region are also killed in horrifyingly large numbers and nobody's interested in remembering them.
Trans people face bigotry. I think that's obvious. But ignoring the reality of that (employment discrimination, difficulties obtaining shared housing spaces, street harassment, objectification) to create rather more dramatic, and very easily disproven narratives undermines that by undermining credibility, and misdirecting attention from where the problems truly lie. This helps nobody. Least of all the trans community. And nor does propagating a narrative that means trans people live in fear of attack and murder, when the reality is that their murder risk is greatly reduced.
It's similar to the ridiculously unscholarly and exaggerated suicide "stats", which GIDS at Tavistock, from their contact with thousands of young people with gender identity issues, state is not correct. They say that suicide is extraordinarily rare, and no more common than amongst any other cohort of young people the same age. Yet people keep repeating a stat from a self-chosen survey, with no controls possible, far less probability weighting, where the designers of that study had no way even of knowing if those completing it did so more than once. A statistic taken from 26 young people in total cohort. Yet people keep citing that, and ignoring GIDS, with their ongoing relationships with many thousands of patients. GIDS have further stated that they deplore those highly questionable suicide stats being used as propaganda, as they harm the resilience and peace of mind of the very young people they are seeking to support. So why do people keep doing it? Especially when, as with suicide risk, there is a proven link between telling teenagers they're at increased risk of suicide, and their attempting it.
Dramatic false claims may harm the people you are claiming concern for. Again: fact checking matters.