We are being forever told by MP’s, councillors, trans activists and lobby groups like Stonewall, that trans people are ‘marginalised’. The claim that trans people are ‘marginalised’ is both a persistent talking point and a way of giving weight to pro-trans propaganda. But how can we measure marginalisation? One way to do this is to look at murder rates. When we look at genuinely marginalised people such as Jews in Nazi Germany, ethnic minorities in the Stalinist Soviet Union or specific African tribes such as the Pygmies we can see what real marginalisation looks like. In all three of these cases we can find copious examples of members of these groups being dispossessed and murdered with impunity by way of industrial murder machines, gulags and in the case of the Pygmies, being eaten by other humans.

When we look at the situation regarding trans people in Western nations. We see none of this. We see no dispossession and no high murder rate. In fact according to an author writing on Graham Linehan’s substack, a trans person is less likely to be murdered than a non-trans person. The author said that chance of an average British person being murdered in any one year is 1:100,000 whereas for a trans person that chance of murder drops to between 1:200,000 to 1:500,000.

The author, who goes under the pseudonym of ripx4nutmeg said that the claim of marginalisation of trans people is false and goes on to show just why it is false. They said of the marginalisation claim:

It is a shield, provided by their advisors, behind which they cower, and because it rarely receives pushback from informed journalists, it has the magical effect of shutting down the discussion before it even gets started. That’s why politicians love it. It’s the UK equivalent to the “thoughts and prayers” catechism recited by American politicians after every mass shooting.

There’s only one problem with it. It’s not true. It’s not even remotely true.

Let’s begin with the clearest indicator of the extent a community is ‘marginalised and abused’: the murder rate of those within it. Because there is no stable definition of what constitutes a ‘trans person’, there is no standardised method for recording the deaths of trans people across the UK. However, we know that there have been just eight reported murders of people who defined themselves as transgender, transsexual or cross-dressers in the UK since reporting began in 2008. Even trans organisation Transrespect, which includes people who have committed suicide and people whose death was originally and erroneously treated as suspicious in their numbers for ‘murdered’ victims, says the number from 2008 to 2020 is eleven.

Note that the UK is not a European anomaly – in Germany there hasn’t been a murder of a trans person since 2008, while 26 countries in Europe have reported no murders of trans people for the entire period.

There are plenty of other groups who suffer much higher murder rates than suffered by trans people. From what I’ve read there is probably a greater chance of being murdered for an innocent Black teenager in London than there ever was for a trans person being murdered. Basically, what the claim of ‘marginalisation’ is utter and complete bullshit and is used by the trans activists for is to shut down debate about the ideology and cult of trans. After if someone is generally and genuinely marginalised then there is a social incentive to help them become less marginalised and a whole slew of do-gooders wanting to help them join in with the wider society. A claim of marginalisation, especially if it is a false and dishonest one, can become a valuable and useful weapon in the hands of activists.

I would most strongly, very strongly in fact, counsel people to read the entirety of the piece by ripx4nutmeg. It’s pretty scholarly and blows out of the water the false claim that trans activists make that trans people are ‘marginalised’.