{"id":1744317,"date":"2022-11-18T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744317"},"modified":"2022-11-18T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:33:38","slug":"media-pushes-bogus-transgender-murder-epidemic-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-pushes-bogus-transgender-murder-epidemic-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Pushes Bogus &#8220;Transgender Murder Epidemic&#8221; Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-pushes-bogus-transgender-murder-epidemic-narrative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>    Liberals exploit fake &#8216;epidemic&#8217; of trans murder for partisan ends<br \/>\n    <meta \/><br \/>\n    <meta content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\" \/>\n    <link rel=\"pingback\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/xmlrpc.php\" \/>\n    <meta content=\"index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t<meta content=\"Progressive activists at the Human Rights Campaign are pushing the narrative that there&#039;s an epidemic of trans murder. 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td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_87  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_88 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_88\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-author-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/author\/brad-polumbo\/\" title=\"Brad Polumbo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brad-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Brad Polumbo\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-96 alignnone photo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_89 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_89\">\n<p><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2022-11-18T10:47:49-04:00\">November 18, 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_92 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_92\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span>Did you know that there\u2019s an \u201cepidemic of violence\u201d and murder against transgender people in the US that\u2019s happening because you think sports should be sex-segregated?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At least, that\u2019s the latest story coming out of far-left activist groups and being uncritically parroted by mainstream media outlets. But the reality is far more complicated than this cynical partisan narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The spin stems from a new report by the Human Rights Campaign, a Democratic Party activist group that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/gay-rights-group-sells-out-to-fear\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>falsely purports<\/span><\/a><span> to be an LGBT rights organization. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.hrc.org\/an-epidemic-of-violence-2022?_ga=2.268055053.20350012.1668618947-446469087.1668618947\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span>, titled \u201c<\/span><b>An Epidemic of Violence 2022: <\/b><span>Fatal Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in the United States in 2022,\u201d documents the unquestionably tragic deaths of 32 Americans. But it goes further than that, making the claim that the US is experiencing a unique epidemic of anti-trans murders and tying culpability for these murders to a wide variety of common political, partisan issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><b>Fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people is the tragic result of a society that devalues our lives<\/b><span>,\u201d remarked Human Rights Campaign senior vice president Jay Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brown went on to directly pin some of the blame for the murders documented in the report on specific political\/policy issues such as segregating sports by birth sex, allowing free speech\u2014including \u201canti-trans\u201d speech\u2014 on social media, and \u201ctransphobic\u201d media coverage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brown goes so far as to say that those who advocate for these political positions \u201csend a message that trans lives aren\u2019t valuable\u201d and \u201cput our community and our allies at serious risk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 32 murders documented in the report were \u201c<\/span><b>killed in an epidemic of violence threatening our community<\/b><span>,\u201d according to HRC\u2019s Tori Cooper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This narrative was uncritically parroted by mainstream media outlets like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/16\/transgender-deaths-2022\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>Axios<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/report-32-transgender-people-killed-us-2022-93408263\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>ABC News<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it\u2019s deeply flawed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report: At least 32 trans people killed in the U.S. in 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7luwv0EtKw\" class=\"stylish-link\">https:\/\/t.co\/7luwv0EtKw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Axios (@axios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/1593051740445855751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">November 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the U.S. in 2022, the Human Rights Campaign announces. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dBqxaQm8Ue\" class=\"stylish-link\">https:\/\/t.co\/dBqxaQm8Ue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1592913387020853248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>For one, it\u2019s not at all clear that these murders actually constitute an \u201cepidemic\u201d of anti-trans hate crimes\u2014or that the trans murder rate is even higher than the average murder rate in general.\u00a0 And secondly, the attempt to tie these murders to a whole host of unrelated partisan policy issues is deeply cynical and unfair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We should start with some unequivocal Disclaimers. Any murder is a tragedy, and a transgender American\u2019s life is every bit as valuable as anyone else\u2019s. My heart goes out to them and their families. But <\/span><b>the statistics simply do not support the idea that they\u2019re being murdered more regularly than everyone else.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The general US murder rate was 6 per 100,000 in 2021. The HRC\u2019s reported total of 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people killed in 2022 is relative to an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/new-study-estimates-16-million-us-identify-transgender-2022-06-10\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>estimated<\/span><\/a><span> transgender population of 1.6 million*. That comes out to about 2 per 100,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, even assuming that more tragic murders will, unfortunately, occur in the last few months of 2022, it seems that the murder rate for transgender people in 2022 will actually be at most 3-4 per 100,000, thus below the overall average\/typical murder rate. That\u2019s a good thing! But it also eviscerates the idea that there\u2019s an \u201cepidemic\u201d of anti-trans murder in the US.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What\u2019s more, there have been about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadorkicking.com\/death-statistics\/us\/2022\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>16,729 homicides<\/span><\/a><span> so far in 2022. At 32, transgender people would constitute about .002% of that figure. Yet they are about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/new-study-estimates-16-million-us-identify-transgender-2022-06-10\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>0.5%<\/span><\/a><span> of the US adult population. So, they are disproportionately <\/span><i><span>less<\/span><\/i><span> likely to be victims of homicide. Once again: that\u2019s a good thing. But it further undercuts the idea that we\u2019re living through an epidemic of anti-trans killings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Don\u2019t forget that the 32 murders counted are not all anti-trans hate crimes.<\/b><span> In fact, the majority of documented murders do not involve cases where the person was specifically targeted or killed for being transgender. They count any case where a transgender person was murdered, regardless of circumstance or manner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So why is the mainstream media spreading panic about an epidemic of transgender people being murdered that\u2014thank god\u2014does not actually exist? The answer is unfortunately as simple as it is cynical: <\/span><b>They want to use the tragic emotion involved in these murders and the macabre specter of an anti-trans murder wave to shut down debate on a whole host of issues.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Don\u2019t forget that they literally tied these murders to the question of whether transgender athletes who were born biologically male should be allowed to compete in women\u2019s sports. The public largely recognizes the inherent sex differences between males and females that make the inclusion of trans athletes (like controversial collegiate swimmer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/swimming\/2022\/11\/08\/raced-lia-thomas-still-feel-burning-injustice\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span>Lia Thomas<\/span><\/a><span>) unfair, and the science is not on the side of progressives in this debate. And, even if it <\/span><i><span>were<\/span><\/i><span> the case that the conservative position on this issue was wrong, it\u2019s still a <\/span><i><span>huge<\/span><\/i><span> stretch to tie it to individual murders and claim a casual relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>None of that matters to the activists and reporters pushing their narrative. They evidently hope to simply shut down the debate and cow us into submission with heart-breaking rhetoric about anti-trans murders. My heart breaks for the victims of any murder, but I, for one, won\u2019t go along with this farce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While every murder is a tragedy, the Left\u2019s collective attempt to push a deceptive narrative of an anti-trans murder epidemic is deeply cynical and not rooted in reality. Americans should be wise to the reality of what\u2019s happening\u2014and not fall for emotional manipulation intended to stifle debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>*(This denominator should actually be even larger if it included non-binary people, so the real number is probably even bigger and the resulting murder rate even smaller).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Like this article? 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He hosts the Breaking Boundaries podcast and has a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Brad Polumbo\" \/><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/author\/brad-polumbo\/\" \/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2022-11-18T10:47:49-04:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2022-11-18T10:59:55-04:00\" \/><meta itemscope itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" itemid=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/2022\/11\/18\/progressives-exploit-fake-epidemic-of-trans-murder-for-partisan-ends\/\" \/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/2022\/11\/18\/progressives-exploit-fake-epidemic-of-trans-murder-for-partisan-ends\/\" \/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Based Politics\" \/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Activists want to use the tragic emotion involved in these murders and the macabre specter of an anti-trans murder wave to shut down debate on a whole host of issues.\u00a0\" \/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/iStock-1392711171-scaled.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\" \/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\" \/><\/span>                <\/article>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals exploit fake &#8216;epidemic&#8217; of trans murder for partisan ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1744320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}