Ten years ago I would never have thought that I would be writing about an uptick in violence from trans activists.
In fact, if you asked me, I would have told you that while I had no data, I would think that transgender people were more likely to be victims of bigoted violence than to commit it.
On that latter point, I would have been mostly wrong–it turns out from the statistics that, statistically speaking, transgender people are victims of murder at a lower rate than the general population, although the numbers are so small that it is hard to trust that the statistics are significant.
I also would have assumed that transgender people were not especially likely to commit violent crimes, and for all I know, that is still the case, although the recent rush of men in prison “transing” to get into women’s prisons probably skews the statistics. The…
