Maybe this will help
This quote keeps appearing here:
”Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault”
It was from this press release.
williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/
I have a few issues with this press release. I think it has been used widely and extensively since it was released. I believe this document discusses those crime statistics
escholarship.org/content/qt7c3704zg/qt7c3704zg.pdf?t=qqfomk&v=lg
It refers to 369 trans people vs 435 061 people who were not trans identified in a study.
How strange that the sample size was not mentioned at all in the press release!!
I might have forgotten most of what I learned from my Statistics module at uni but 0.0008 is not a population that you could draw many confident conclusions from. And it would be ridiculous to make the comparison.
Think about this from the point of view that women around the world admit they don’t bother to report their sexual assaults and rapes. Because they have no confidence that they will get justice AND not be vilified in the process.
What % of females actively reporting their attacks vs current trend of not bothering to report would decimate that 369 figure?
And that number cannot be accurately depicted in this point either;
”About half of all violent victimizations were not reported to police. Transgender people were as likely as cisgender people to report violence to police.”
Sure this 'maybe'. However, I believe the huge number of women telling us they don’t report.
This article is misrepresenting the reality.
I also bring to your attention this as it is relevant to your claim:
”Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault”
Including! Notice it says ‘including’!
Not ”Trans people are 4 times more likely to experience violent attacks including rape and sexual assault.”
What was NOT included was a handy breakdown of what constituted the crimes against trans people were. What was the bar for a hate crime being committed for instance? Misogyny? Does that fit the definition that holds for transphobic hate crimes?
And based on 369 people, I am not going to delve into that national dataset to look for it. I don’t have the will. Maybe if you wish to prove your point, you could link to that data with the breakdown of the actual crimes reported for those 369 people.
“One in four transgender women who were victimized thought the incident was a hate crime compared to less than one in ten cisgender women.”
How many females being taught how to accurately assess the motivation against them as to whether it constituted a hate crime, or indeed using the very same frames of reference as trans people do but based on sexism, and then reanswering that same survey would again make that point meaningless? Is misogyny a ‘hate crime’ for instance?
Do people understand the significance of what centuries of oppression of females has done on being able to accurately assess the motivation of crimes against our sex?
I am beginning to. The trans lobby groups are informing my learnings. Because of what they classify as ‘transphobic hate crimes’ when I look at what I have experienced as a female… wow! I sure have overlooked a huge amount of what I just waved away as crap from males.
And that the group who are trans could include many of those reporting abuse that includes misgendering and perceived micro-aggressions. Gosh, imagine if women reported all the hateful things said and done to them on a daily basis.
Crimes that cause harm and pain to anyone should be fully investigated and justice served.
But if a claim such as ”Trans people are 4 times more likely to experience violent attacks including rape and sexual assault.” is going to be made by any institution or poster, it needs to be based on some very robust data.