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Thank you for doing the leg-work! I remembered reading a similar analysis a few years ago and in that year's tally the list included both several deaths by natural causes and at least one gay man who had, apparently, no history of cross-dressing and no obvious reason for inclusion.

Some previous articles and Twitter threads I had bookmarked:

Katie Roche's Blog - 22/11/2021

The Truth about the Transgender Murder Epidemic

https://katieroche.net/trans_day_of_remembrance.html

Archive: https://archive.ph/nl4uK

ripx4nutmeg - 15/10/2021

Neither marginalised, abused nor vulnerable

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/neither-marginalised-abused-nor-vulnerable

Archive: https://archive.ph/3WLMT

Twitter thread @nativeginger13 - 17/08/2021

A thread documenting that not all trans people are murdered because of hate crimes.

https://archive.ph/B7UPU

Karen Ingala Smith - 21/04/2021

Counting Dead Trans People

https://kareningalasmith.com/2021/04/21/counting-dead-trans-people/

Archive: https://archive.ph/2rUwV

Panoramic Gutterview - 31/11/2020

Sex, Lies, and an Invidious Landscape

https://panoramicgutterview.blogspot.com/2020/10/sex-lies-and-invidious-landscape.html

Verity Ritchie - 16/11/2020

TDOR: Trans Death and Trans Life — Queer Majority

https://www.queermajority.com/currents/tdor-trans-death-and-trans-life

Archive: https://archive.ph/U78Ky

Allison Bliss - 14/04/2020

An Epidemic of Misinformation: Murder Rates and the Transgender Population

https://4w.pub/the-epidemic-of-transgender-murder-victims-is-really-an-epidemic-of-misinformation/

Archive: https://archive.ph/fuqAF

TheNewAmerican - 02/01/2020

Report: “Transgenders” More Likely to Kill Than be Killed; Overrepresented Among Pedophiles

https://thenewamerican.com/report-transgenders-more-likely-to-kill-than-be-killed-overrepresented-among-pedophiles/

Archive: https://archive.ph/xCbYG

Eric Striker - 21/12/2019

Transgenders Are 58% More Likely to Commit Murder Than Be Murdered

https://national-justice.com/transgenders-are-58-more-likely-commit-murder-be-murdered

Archive: https://archive.ph/0Xlft

Sophia Narwitz - 12/12/2019

There is NO trans murder epidemic. But someone IS using trans deaths for political gain in America

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/475680-transgender-community-murder-bias/

Archive: https://archive.ph/FFCrL

Valerie Richardson - 8/12/2019

Transgender homicide rate ‘remarkably low’ despite Human Rights Campaign claims

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/8/transgender-homicide-rate-remarkably-low-despite-h/

Archive: https://archive.ph/h6CwW

Wilfred Reilly - 07/12/2019

Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic?

https://quillette.com/2019/12/07/are-we-in-the-midst-of-a-transgender-murder-epidemic/

Archive: https://archive.ph/0mu2P

Twitter thread by @GenderCritical3 - 29/11/2019

1 / A fact for the next time someone tells you trans people are at an astronomically high risk of violence:

In 2017, the rest of Americans, looked at as one average, were just over 1.66x more likely to be murdered than a trans American.

Open the thread to see the numbers ↓

Archive: https://archive.ph/QrbY9

Chad Felix Greene - 04/11/2019

I Crunched The Data. The Violence ‘Epidemic’ Against Transgender People Is A Myth

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/the-left-is-lying-about-a-hatred-and-violence-epidemic-against-transgender-people/#disqus_thread

Archive: https://archive.ph/90T6t

Katie Hertzog - 23/09/2019

Is the Life Expectancy of Trans Women in the U.S. Just 35? No

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/23/41471629/is-the-life-expectancy-of-trans-women-in-the-us-just-35-no

Archive: https://archive.ph/6lMse

TransCrimeUK - 16/11/2017

There’s no evidence trans people are murdered at higher rates than the general population in the UK

https://transcrimeuk.com/2017/11/16/theres-no-evidence-trans-people-are-murdered-at-higher-rates-than-the-general-population-in-the-uk/

Archive: https://archive.ph/8xytL

Niki - 22/04/2017

Trans Murder Rates : The Data

https://medium.com/athena-talks/trans-murder-rates-the-data-120b60b19cb4

Archive: https://archive.ph/G66qE

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Looks to me that majority of these are MALE on MALE murders. There is at least one which is a TiM killing a TiF - so same old, same old - MALE violence against a WOMAN- just the pair of them are totally confused as to what they both are.

Half of the problem is NOT using the correct *SEX BASED* descriptor terms. MAJORITY of these listed are TiMs - Trans Identifying Males. Thus they should ALL be referred to with the correct sexed pronoun of "HIM".

Otherwise it confuses the facts.

Start with the correct language and then the correct facts.

And then do a comparison with how many WOMEN (not the ones pretending to be women) being killed *each week* in the world. Its on average 3 per week in the UK.

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Thank you, you took the words right out of my mouth.

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