Thread by @JewhadiTM

Look out for more woke social justice lies from @CoryBooker at the next debate washex.am/2M7WpPY

If Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, attempts to out-social justice his Democratic rivals at news week’s presidential debate, just remember that he’s probably full of it, just like he was at the first debate.

At that first debate back in late June, he defiantly declared that “We do not talk enough about trans-Americans, especially African American trans-Americans and the incredibly high rates of murder right now.”

There is very limited data on transgender murders in the U.S. Some nonprofit orgs and advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign attempt to keep count, but if you look at the numbers, you find that the murders aren’t due to a rash of intolerance for transgender people

They’re more often than not the result of robberies, drug dealing, or any number of other factors that have nothing to do with the victim’s gender identity.

The Advocate, a gay-centric magazine, put together a list of transgender people killed in 2018. Among the entries:

— Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, 42, who was stabbed to death by her own husband. He went to police after the incident to turn himself in.

— Phylicia Mitchell, who at 46 was shot dead in Cleveland. When the suspect was apprehended, a local news report said that the incident was the result of Gary Sanders “collecting a drug debt.”

— Victoria “Viccky” Ramos Gutierrez, 33, of Los Angeles, who was stabbed to death during an attempted robbery.

Any murder or preventable death is a tragedy, obviously. But there is no basis in the data for the assertion that there is a rising threat of violent intolerance toward transgender people in America.

When politicians say otherwise, they are lying and pandering.

Remember that as Booker and his rivals try to out-woke one another.