Links for your own education:
http://www.xojane.com/sex/chelsea-po...-slur-petition
http://trans-faqs.tumblr.com/post/12...male-offensive
http://transwhat.org/allyship/ Originally Posted by spicyzoey
Trans women are murdered at astonishingly high rates and transphobic slurs contribute to the dangerous conditions they face in our society. Originally Posted by spicyzoeyDefine "astonishingly high rates".
http://www.liminalis.de/2009_03/TMM/...08-2009-en.pdf
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The claim that a trans person is murdered every 36 hours (from one of your links) is counting all murders worldwide. In other words, 121 people. The U.S. had 16 trans people murdered in 2008.
According to this link 0.3% identify as trans.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...47e3ce823c970b
Assuming 320,000,000 in the U.S., that is 960,000 transgendered. 16 people (the number murdered in 2008) would be .00001666666 % of that population.
In 2007 the number of African Americans that were victims of homicide was 8117. For Caucasian it was 8286 homicides.
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http://www.jfox.neu.edu/Documents/Fo...029%202008.pdf
If the AA population is around 12%, that would be 38,400,000 in the U.S, with a rate of .0002113% of the total population being a victim.
The Caucasian population is around 72%, so that would be roughly 230,400,000 in the U.S. That is a homicide rate of .00003596%.
African Americans are homicide victims at a rate of one out of every 4732. Caucasians are victims at a rate of 1 in 27,808. While 1 in 60,000 transgendered are victims.
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