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Comment by ndidi

>What's your basis for believing this?

I don't know. It sounds reasonable to me that as time passes more people become transgenders because it's more acceptable. Similar to homosexuality.

>If n trans people are killed one year and > n trans people are killed another year, the number of trans people killed has gone up, regardless of the size of the population itself (which, for reasons stated in the article, can't be accurately measured anyway.)

Yeah but the headline makes it sound like it's a problem that's worsening but if the % is not going up then the problem has the same severity.

parent ndidi 7 years ago

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