© ReutersAn advocacy group is blaming US President Donald Trump for a rise in transgender killings.
In a report released Friday, the Human Rights Campaign revealed that 102 transgender people have been killed in the US over the course of the past five years. The figures reached an all-time this year with 25 deaths.
Another monitoring group, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, calculates that 26 transgender people have been killed in the US this year. Both groups say their counts may be incomplete because transgender victims are sometimes misidentified in reports.
The Human Rights Campaign have been quick to lay the blame for the rise in killings at the door of US President Donald Trump.
"Since the election of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, there has been a notable increase in the vitriol and anti-transgender rhetoric - from the top levels of government down through the rest of American society," the group said in a statement.
The group expanded on those sentiments inside the 47-page report, alleging that President Trump is encouraging discriminatory legislation.
"President Trump and his administration have both directly and indirectly exacerbated existing injustices long endured by transgender Americans, while encouraging intolerant lawmakers to push an onslaught of discriminatory legislation at federal, state and local levels," the report reads.
The group also carried out a youth survey in the aftermath of Trump's election victory, which found that 70 percent of respondents reported witnessing bullying and harassment during or since the 2016 election, and almost half of respondents said they've taken steps to hide who they are since Trump came into power.
The report was released ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which takes place on Monday. The annual event seeks to commemorate transgender people who have been killed around the world.
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And what percentage of said CJs might have their own deep issues; making thereby a twist on plausible deniability a legislative attraction.
Yes those rates are high but for many the driving problems actually go away with transition, difficult though it is both before and after the fact.
Perhaps they should rephrase that and suggest that: our group directly or indirectly raised the level of discriminatory acts on fellow transgender people by encouraging the Trans community to force governments to create laws for society that takes away the freedom of speech and opinions that a disagreeing party has, and to be accused of a hate crime if they do not refer to the correct pronoun of a Trans persons choosing. We also encourage the trans community to emphasize intolerance when one disagrees with your stance and to be carried out in the form of abusive language, incoherent rhetoric, and ad hominem attacks.
I've been saying form the get-go that Bill Whatever-the-Hell it is up here in Canada would lead to more hate crimes and do so because it attempts to force people to simply be considerate.
Ain't gonna happen and trying to force the situation will only make matters worse, not better . . .
Red necks and haters aren't about to legislated into considerate individuals.