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That paper (full text in [1]) does not support your argument at all. In fact, murder rates are only mentioned in §3.2: > The report related stories of 51 trans

• 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
  Also from the referenced article: > What is beginning to emerge from these multiple sources of data are the increased risks of variety of types of violence, though in particular sexual violence, faced by transgender people Their conclusion directly states that there is an increased risk of violence for transgender people. Secondarily, their conclusion also hints at there being empirical evidence that one cannot extrapolate from murder rates to cover all forms of victim-having crime. That would imply that your argument is indeed suffering from the law of averages.
  • dvt 5y ago
    > ...hints at there being empirical evidence that one cannot extrapolate from murder rates to cover all forms of victim-having crime... I hope you see how weak your argument is when your own cited paper merely "hints" at your purported conclusion.
    • 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
      Merely hints at my contention that you are succumbing to the law of averages. It directly supports my original conclusion that there are disproportionate experiences of harms for transgender people.