The Patriot Post® · Are 'Transgenders' Suffering an Epidemic of Violence?

This past Monday, November 20, was the 24th annual “Transgender Day of Remembrance.” Of course, no one but members of that tiny “community” of gender-benders had ever heard of the day — that is, prior to Joe Biden taking office and his administration’s decision to elevate sexual deviance at every conceivable opportunity.

Recall the White House was lit up in rainbow lights last December as Biden signed the erroneously titled Respect for Marriage Act. If the “good Catholic” Biden truly had respect for marriage, he’d be calling for legislation to officially define marriage as a covenant relationship between one man and one woman, the way God established with the creation of humanity.

And remember his garish flag display this past June at an event complete with a dude flashing his prosthetic breasts for a picture in front of the White House.

Back to Monday, when Biden once again pandered to the gender-benders by officially recognizing “Transgender Day of Remembrance.” He did so by repeating a ridiculous assertion from the leftist Human Rights Campaign (HRC) that gender-benders are suffering from an “epidemic of violence.”

HRC claims that this past year, 33 gender-confused individuals have been killed, and the majority of them were “people of color.” (The White House said 26 were killed.) To check off another one of the woke Left’s hobby horse grievances, HRC noted that most of these 33 individual were killed with guns. Yet another anti-Second Amendment dig.

“The epidemic of violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people is a national tragedy and a national embarrassment,” HRC President Kelly Robinson lamented. “Each of the lives taken is the result of a society that demeans and devalues anyone who dares challenge the gender binary.”

Biden echoed Robinson’s claims by stating, “While each one of these deaths is a tragedy, the true toll of those victimized is likely even higher, with the majority of those targeted being women of color.” (He means men pretending to be women, and it is true that black men kill other black men at a far higher rate than any other demographic.) He also took the occasion to blast Republican-led states that have passed legislation to protect children from sexualization in schools and medical gender mutilation. Calling such efforts “anti-trans,” he pontificated, “We must never be silent in the face of hate. As we mourn the loss of transgender Americans taken too soon this year, we must also recommit ourselves to never stop fighting until all Americans can live free from discrimination.”

Well, except conservatives discriminated against on social media, or the unvaxxed who lost jobs thanks to Biden’s discriminating mandate, or whites and Asians who miss out on the college of their choice because of discriminating DEI quotas. We could go on, but we digress.

HRC’s claim that there is an “epidemic of violence” against gender-bending individuals just doesn’t hold water. According to HRC, 335 “transgender” identifying individuals have been killed over the past decade. Even that number appears dubiously inflated as the FBI’s official tally of “transgender” identifying individuals killed as a result of a hate crime over that same time span is just 21. Either way, the “transgender” homicide rate is infinitesimally small compared to the overall murder rate — and especially, as we alluded to already, the rate of black men killing black men.

Any murder is of course a terrible hate crime and should never happen. That includes the six innocent people murdered by a “transgender” individual in Nashville. But that “transgender” tally hardly represents an epidemic level of violence.

Just as with Biden’s ridiculous claim that white supremacy is the “most dangerous terrorist threat” facing the nation, so this claim of an “epidemic of violence” against gender-benders rings hallow. Indeed, HRC’s report even admits that most of the victims were killed by people that knew them — a friend, family members, or a romantic partner.

At least three of them were killed during the commission of crimes. Certainly, each individual had a story to go along with their death that more enlightening that just a statistic about their gender-confusion.

And clearly, no law about books in libraries or boys on girls sports teams played any role whatsoever in a single one of these deaths. Joe “Unity” Biden should be ashamed of implying otherwise.

Nevertheless, when it comes to the Left’s special rights groups, such as the constantly celebrated LGBTQ crowd, narrative always matters more than facts. There’s a simple reason for that: politics.

As commentator Matt Walsh aptly put it, “Their sole purpose, following the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage, is to further false narratives that demonize anyone in this country who believes in biology, because people who believe in biology tend to vote the wrong way.”