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Comment by culi

Since most people aren't gonna have context on this part of the literature.

This paper is heavily rejected by mainstream criminologists. It relies on victim memorial lists for a count of victims and it relies on a database made by an anti-Trans group for the perpetrator count. This leads to both a significant undercount of victims and overcount of perpetrators.

The ONS has come out against it and said that official homicide data does not track transgender status so there is no official data to back this research up on.

None of this has stopped rightwingers from heavily circulating this paper of course. Somehow I doubt science is the goal here.

parent culi 3 days ago

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