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.

NB Nicolle Early's victim - a woman in her 60s whom Early stamped to death - was a family friend, not the murderer's grandmother.

CHRISTOPHER / CRYSTAL HUNNISETT:
There's a lot going on here:

"The murder conviction of a former altar boy who carried out the vigilante killing of a man he wrongly believed was a paedophile has been upheld by judges.
Christopher Hunnisett bludgeoned Peter Bick with a hammer and strangled him with a shoelace, just months after being released from prison over another killing.

Hunnisett, who underwent a sex change in prison and is now called Crystal, was first jailed in 2002 over the death of 81-year-old Reverend Ronald Glazebrook, who he had been lodging with as a teenager in St Leonards on Sea, in East Sussex.
The vicar’s severed head and limbs were discovered in a sports bag on a traffic island in Hastings, and his torso was found near Eastbourne.
Hunnisett was convicted at trial and spent eight years in prison before the murder conviction was quashed on appeal and the case was sent for a retrial.
Jurors then cleared Hunnisett of the murder, after he described punching Rev Glazebrook to stop him touching him in the bath, finding the pensioner dead the next morning. Four months after being released from prison, Hunnisett attacked supermarket worker Mr Bick in Bexhill.

Hunnisett had drawn up a “hit list” of targets for an attack while in prison, and on release set-up an online “honeytrap”.
Mr Bick used social media and dating websites to meet men, but the court heard there was “not a shred of evidence” that he was a paedophile."

"A murderer who performed her own DIY sex change behind bars by cutting off her testicles has claimed her rights in prison are being violated.
The former altar boy, Christopher Hunnisett, 33, told the court "I have cut off my testicles and sliced the shaft of my penis in half".
Taking her case to the High Court, she complained keeping her in segregation at HMP Frankland, Durham, was unfair, and that she was showed a "lack of respect" by the prison who called her home-made operation "self-harm surgery".

OUTCOME OF FACT CHECK of the list of 20 "homicides" = As I've mentioned, there appear to be a small number of relatively minor mistakes in the list. Eg where an older family friend was said to be the murderer's grandmother and where a murderer transitioned after rather than before the crime.
THOUGHTS?
The majority of the crimes are more shocking than I had anticipated. There is a lot of very extreme violence (eg stabbing the victim many, many times). There are I think 3 murders of parents. A lot of the killers suffered/are suffering from serious mental health issues, and on a number of occasions being transgender was mentioned in the context of that.
TRANSITIONING AFTER IMPRISONMENT
I was surprised at the overall level of commitment to some level of physical transitioning by those who "transitioned" after rather than before imprisonment. In one case, the killer cut off his own testicles in prison.
WOMEN
10% of the killers were female, and their crimes were extremely shocking.
SCOTLAND
20% were from Scotland, although less than 10% of the UK population lives in Scotland - 4 out of 20.
SEX
A large number of the crimes had a sex aspect to them.

SUICIDE
2 of the killers were not tried for their crimes because they committed suicide.

Wey hey!

My bingo card is being filled in nicely on this thread!

Diversion and derailment within 11 minutes of initial op being posted ✅

Right wing ✅

Trump/Vance ✅

Ricky Gervais ✅

Jordan Peterson✅

Andrew Tate ✅

not peer reviewed ✅

What prize do I get when I shout “House!”

Less than eleven minutes: 19:22 till 19:31 is a mere nine.

That’s embarrassing about my numeracy!

But you were right: it was within eleven.

Thanks @turquoiseshell for putting all the info in one place.

Anyone wanting to make a counter argument?

Please list here any disagreements with what has been shared?

Any trans people who have been murdered who have been missed?

Now's the chance to set the record straight. I hope that this opportunity is jumped apon by those dismissing the data. Should be straightforward, given the information is in the public domain.

Anyone?

Thank you @turquoiseshell for doing all those checks. The crimes are shockingly violent.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that Oxford Academic is nothing of the sort.

The claim that the poster in question is a colleague of the man Rattley has definitely been made by that poster. Whether we choose to believe it without any evidence is up to us.

Ah, an appeal to authority. "I am jolly clever, an academic and I know people, therefore, you must accept me at my word. So there!"

It's rather ironic, not to say telling, that OF criticises the author over a perceived lack of academic rigour, whilst displaying exactly that, themself. They show no sign of refuting the analysis at all, just tells us to Google it.

I hope they aren't an actual teaching academic.

Well yes sinner.

on a thread yesterday a different username declared that they were not going to link anything up to support their posts, while claiming lots of unevidenced knowledge that strangely no one has done a paper on yet.

They had no problem telling women they were bullying and not up to date and bad feminists. But no, they were not going to link up any evidence to a ‘Mumsnet thread’.

That's presumably on a par with "You wouldn't know my girlfriend, she's at a different school" and "lots of people have DMed support for me". On this board we also sometimes get "well that post has 37 'agree's so you're wrong".

I was on a discussion about immigration. One particular person was abusing everyone else. Apparently they were stupid, ignorant, uneducated, unable to analyse what they read, had no critical thinking, she despaired of the state of the [English] education system, etc. She rejected all the statistical evidence put to her and stated that there were a number of analytical studies which clearly proved that she was right. She was then invited to link to one or two of those studies, so that we could read them. That was the last we heard of her.

Oh, and she also accused people of being Nazis. Because that's always the sign of having a winning argument...

I often wish I knew whether people who throw the word "Nazis" around have the faintest idea what National Socialism was about or what its tenets. In real life, they never seem to be able to tell me if I ask them.

I love throwing in the words "clerical fascism" and watching their little faces pucker up as they try to understand.

Thanks for "clerical fascism", I not heard of it before, does it only apply to the Catholic Church (I searched it) or any religion.

It was originally a comment on the RC reaction to the National Socialist ethos in Berlin in the thirties, or rather failure to react to it as it should have been reacted to. Lending the disreputable movement a veneer of respectability for a lot of people – right up until Hitler's regime started to persecute RCs as well as trades unionists, Jews, gypsies, the disabled, etc ad naus., in fact.

To be fair, the official catholic party line was opposed to the Nazis, but altogether too many RC priests acquiesced until "they came for me". And they tried very hard to appease and not make waves, much of the time.