Transgender Homicides in Britain, 2000–2025: Victims and Perpetrators

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Transgender people are often portrayed as especially vulnerable to violence, but estimating victimization rates is difficult because reliable population denominators are lacking. This paper proposes an alternative approach, comparing the ratio of transgender homicide victims to perpetrators. It analyzes all homicides involving transgender people in Britain from 2000 to 2025. Victims were outnumbered by perpetrators, even excluding those who declared a transgender identity after imprisonment. Almost all cases involved natal males identifying as transwomen. The victim–perpetrator ratio among these individuals closely resembles that for males overall and differs markedly from that for females. BBC News published more than four times as many articles on transgender victims as on perpetrators, contributing to perceptions of exceptional vulnerability.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6182901

I couldn't find a link to this on any other threads. Only recently published, well updated in April. Thought as this is a question that often gets asked would post the link to it.

Because it blows their argument out of the water and they can no longer wallow in the soup of their purported oppression and vulnerability and be fawned over and soothed.

The narrative that trans people are vulnerable and marginalised may be true, but it also is often presented carefully with the silent implication that a man who has been victimised can present no risk to women.

yep. All too often we see the terms being used to justify male people accessing female single sex provisions.

I feel that some of us on Mumsnet should fact check the paper. I'll start with Samantha Read. According to local media S Read is or at least was a transwoman and was convicted of manslaughter for killing his male partner. Here's a quote:
"Just before midnight on Saturday, June 23, Read plunged a knife deep into the groin of Mr Spicer after accusing him of hiding her White Lightning cider during a drunken row.
The court heard Read then dragged Mr Spicer to the back door, saying: "If you're going to die, you can die outside."

KAREN LAWSON - This transwoman was convicted of both manslaughter and, after coming out of prison, attempted rape.
"Transsexual jailed for rape attempt
A transsexual who said he tried to rape a woman so he could go to prison and have a sex change operation has been jailed for life.
Karen Louise Lawson - who used to be called Mark John Jones - committed the attack in a transsexuals' shop in Greater Manchester.
Bolton Crown Court heard the 21-year-old, of no fixed abode, had only stopped his assault when he failed to get an erection.
Lawson, who pleaded guilty to attempted rape, was jailed for life by the judge, who ruled his second violent crime was not an exceptional case.
He had committed the attempted rape just days after being freed on licence after serving half of a five-year sentence for manslaughter in a male young offenders institution.

Until you have full and proper treatment, I consider you to be potentially an extremely serious risk... to the public
Judge Derwent Hope
In 2001, when he was aged 18, he had admitted strangling his former lover when he refused to pay for Lawson's sex change operation.
During the recent case, the jury was told Lawson had gone into Transformations, in Prestwich, in October 2002 and attacked a woman.
He tried to rape her but was unable to get an erection.
Feared for her life
Lawson then went on the run but handed himself in to police in Bexleyheath, Kent, later that month.
Judge Derwent Hope, sentencing him to life in prison, said his victim had told police she feared for her life during the attack.
He told Lawson, who was referred to as she throughout the hearing: "Until you have full and proper treatment, I consider you to be potentially an extremely serious risk to any member of the public you associate with, a risk that could easily lead to that person's death."
Judge Hope also said Lawson's name would be put on to the sex offenders' register for the rest of his life.

So you are happy to spend much more than five minutes arguing with people in this thread, but you are not willing to save several of us a (maybe futile) five minute Google search each, that you could do once and point us to the results. And Google isn't as useful as it used to be, now that the results are dominated by AI and finding actual source material is often like searching for a needle in a haystack (exaggerated for effect, but I hope my point is clear).

Posters like OF must think we were born yesterday. Who the fuck do they think they are convincing with the bollocks they post?
Mrs O summed it up perfectly earlier on in the thread.

Oh, and this is a literal photo of me!

Could you clarify what the point is around these men?

Trump and Vance are only doing what keeps them in with the electorate and would stop if the majority didn't want it

Viktor Orban, Seems that he put safeguarding in place and that men are men and women are women.

Jordan Peterson, doesn't want to be forced to say pro-nouns but will say them to be polite, hasn't been seen due to illness for some years.

Tate, didn't he state that he would rather "fuck" a good looking trans-woman than an ugly woman, which alines with the TRAs 'must go out with trans women'?

Or is it because they are not well liked?

Here we go again.

Powerful = bad [I'll grant there is some correlation here]

Right-wing = bad [entirely a political judgement, I personally don't agree with some right-wing standpoints, but can say the same about some left-wing standpoints]

Straight = bad [sexuality says nothing about where on a scale of badness anyone is]

Men = bad [I'd better keep quiet on this in a feminist area of the universe!]

The list of men you have cited reflect some different perspectives; for example, Peterson is very different from all the others, a bit woolly-thinking but from what I've seen not a total misogynist, and not a power-mad politician either.

Fyi, in case you don't know, I'm a man. I also make up my own mind, but I have been influenced by the many articulate and logical arguments made by women here, and also by the misrepresentation and manipulation of language in trans activist books, articles, podcasts and discourse. I'm also open to considering any meaningful criticism of Biggs' and North's research. That hasn't been forthcoming from you. Yet.

They're an academic? Really?

Not simply a feminist...from Oxford? 🤔

I agree that a good peer reviewer should approve an article for publication whether or not they necessarily agree with the conclusions but there are topics academics feel passionately about and sadly not all peer reviewers are paragons of academic neutrality.

Our Oxford colleague mentioned that Ace was a Biologist. Michael Biggs the lead author is a Sociologist and this article is likely to be submitted to a Sociology journal to be peer reviewed.

The good/top UK and European Sociology journals are likely to take at least 18 months to 3 years to publish since each paper will go through several rounds of review and revision generally with long waits in between because the poor sods reviewing usually have very demanding full time jobs and limited time to review (work which is generally unpaid and comes on top of everything else).

And that timescale assumes that the editor and reviewers actually want to publish the article. The majority of submissions to good journals are desk rejected by the editor long before any reviewers even see them. Of course editors should publish work which is academically rigorous even if they disagree with it, but Sociology is a pretty captured discipline and our intrepid authors might well be desk rejected - more than once - adding to the time taken to publish.

It is not uncommon for authors of time relevant papers to publish them through SSRN or departmental working papers after a light touch editorial process. Their findings and arguments can then be discussed while the peer review process grinds away in the background.

One would think transactivists would be happy their risk of murder wasn't as high as they thought.

SEENTHORAN:
A man who pushed a lawyer under a Tube train in central London has been jailed at the Old Bailey for her manslaughter.
Sonia Burgess, 63, died during the rush hour at King's Cross in October 2010.
Senthooran Kanagasingham, who is also known as Nina, was cleared of murdering Ms Burgess, who was transgender, but had earlier admitted manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
Kanagasingham, 35, of Cricklewood, north London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve at least seven years.
He was undergoing sex-change treatment at the time of the killing, the jury heard.
The prosecution had refused to accept Kanagasingham's plea of manslaughter and he was put on trial for murder.
The jury heard he had paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the killing.
Judge Stephen Kramer told Kanagasingham Ms Burgess had been "a really good and generous friend to you".
'I'm guilty'
The victim, a leading human rights and immigration lawyer, had befriended Kanagasingham and introduced him to his GP because she was worried about the killer's mental state.
Ms Burgess had told people close to her that Kanagasingham was becoming psychotic and was "imploding", the court heard.
Eyewitnesses to the killing said Kanagasingham looked "calm", "blank" and "empty" and, when confronted by fellow commuters, he said: "I'm guilty, I'm guilty, I surrender", the court heard.
A note was found in his rucksack which said he was "broke, depressed and suffering from gender dysphoria", the jury heard.

They talk about students and marking and appear to imply they’re an academic.

Can't tell if or no you're dissembling @oxfordfeminist but whether by design or accident "transinclusity" is utterly brilliant.

MELISSA YOUNG:
"A woman who was jailed for a minimum of 20 years after being found guilty of murdering a vulnerable neighbour has had an appeal against the sentence imposed refused.
The main ground of appeal concerned the appellant’s medical and mental condition and the fact that she had undergone gender reassignment, but the Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the trial judge had considered her personal circumstances and that the punishment part selected was “not excessive”.
Lady Smith and Lady Clark of Calton (pictured) heard that the appellant Melissa Madeline Young was convicted following a trial of the murder of Alan Williamson on Christmas Day 2013, after confining him in his flat against his will and stabbing him 29 times on the body with a knife."

"Melissa confessed to the officers, saying:
“The power it gave me was amazing. I have severe mental health issues. I need to go to Carstairs (psychiatric hospital). We’ve been friends for ages, but this has been coming for ages.” — Melissa Young"

PARIS GREEN:
Transgender killer demands NHS sex-change op again while serving life term for murder
Paris Green is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of Robert Shankland in Fife, Scotland, and has now made a second demand for gender reassignment surgery on the NHS

Paris Green has spent the past decade in prison after she was jailed for life for murdering Robert Shankland at a flat in Fife, Scotland.
Green tied up and battered her 45-year-old victim to death alongside two accomplices in a cruel and barbaric assault which a judge said "beggared belief".
Since being jailed in 2013, Green has come out publicly as transgender admitting she struggled with her gender identity since she was a teenager and was already taking hormones.
The 30-year-old has now spoken of her plans to become the first UK prisoner to undergo the £20,000 life-changing surgery while behind bars, prompting fury from her victim's family.

The one biologist he cited was Richard Dawkins, a well-known polemicist.

That made me chortle. You mean Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and zoologist, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and former Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science? Richard Dawkins, who won the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize? Richard Dawkins, the Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature? Richard Dawkins, who has written 18 books about science, as well as dozens of scholarly articles in journals such as Nature?

That Richard Dawkins?

All I am thinking now from OF is that unless something is written or said by just the right person with the right political beliefs, then nothing will be read or heard or considered.

It really has been enlightening to see the tactics deployed to remain ignorant and untouched by discussion involving the wrong political thinkers.

The list of men who apparently have something to do amplifying female single sex provision support is just another sound bite of misinformation that has cycled around.

The entire misdirection about somehow Ace North not using his expertise discipline for the paper, therefore the paper should be discredited is also just bonkers. So.... Oxford and UK universities encourage their students and graduates to not use their experience to consider other disciplines? Well.... how fucking interesting is that considering the number of graduates hired into roles that they have no experience or knowledge about yet are hired because they are from a prestigious university and considered to be able to use their education to improve the workforce they are joining.....

The contradictions in the arguments just continue to come.

ALAN BAKER:
This is the "Alex Stewart" who is in the women's prison in Scotland where he had a long sexual relationship with a particularly nasty female murderess. The two of them brought a claim against another prisoner for being transphobic, which he said hurt his feelings. He has recently been charged with sexually assaulting a female prisoner.

"The Scottish Prison Service is under fire after a transgender murderer was escorted out of prison to have thousands of pounds worth of "unnecessary" cosmetic surgery. Alex Stewart, formerly known as Alan Baker, was sentenced to life after murdering dad-of-two John Weir just hours after meeting him on a gay dating website in 2013.
The dad-of-two was invited over to the killer's home where he was stabbed by Stewart 16 times.
He is currently serving time in HMS Greenock. Three years after the murder Stewart changed his gender to female and in 2019 the Scottish Prison Service approved his request for surgery." [NB apparently the surgery was only to reduce his Adam's Apple].

There may be a mistake here - it looks as though he should be classified as transitioning in prison rather than before committing the murder.

I wonder how self-selecting statistics like this are.
i) We don't actually know the size of population of gender dysphoric individuals, as many? (most?) will hide behind gendered norms of behaviour as invisible but unhappy individuals.
ii) Those that attempt to confront gendered norms by transition, but are least inclined to want to be noticed and try to 'fit' in as best as possible, are probably less likely to be attacked (just as women are less likely to be attacked as they limit their exposure to situations where this could happen by limiting their own freedoms)
iii) Maybe those that confront gendered norms visibly, publicly, and in our face (to get into media or courts) are likely to come from a population of gender dysphoric people with masculine behaviours.
iv) I wonder if the population of trans identifying individuals on stable anti-androgen (or post op) and oestrogen treatments are more likely to part of groups (ii) or (iii).

This oxfordfeminist seems unable to credit that something that has not been peer-reviewed may be valid, but I am not sure "peer-review" is necessarily a magic bullet.

In 1998 The Lancet published a paper entitled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children". That paper had been peer-reviewed. It had twelve co-authors.

It was later withdrawn by the journal and subsequently fully retracted by them, having been demonstrated to have been both poorly-researched and fraudulent. Ten of the named authors retracted their contributions and removed their names when this was first pointed out to them by The Lancet, and the principal author was later struck from the medical register for fraud and conflict of interest (ie it was shown that he did it for money, and his research subjects were not properly selected).

His name was Andrew Wakefield. A fair few children have died because of his dishonesty.

I say again: that paper had been peer-reviewed, or The Lancet would not have published it.

As Oxford feminist rushed onto the thread to defend a bloke wearing massive plastic
norks on the grounds that super duper cleverity Oxford ppl are far too high minded and intelligent to be concerned about bodily things like boundaries and student welfare (I mean the students could complain and I'm sure they would totally get a fair hearing with that attitude abounding ) and only thicky peasants like us mind huge plastic norks in a workplace, I'm dismissing every argument they're likely to make 🤷🏻‍♀️

You are supposing that oxfordfeminist can make an argument?

I wouldn't bet on it; they haven't so far. Not that I have noticed, anyway.

Unsupported assertions, now, they've made lots of those.

I really hope they are not involved in teaching at the University of Oxford, because if they are, the standards of the place have gone down the drain. It may of course only be one college that has done so, but it's sad even so.

Judged by their output, the standard of universities everywhere has gone down.