Thread by @ErinInTheMorn

It would seem there is some sort of "debate" going on as to whether or not transmisogyny is real.

And like... I don't even understand how that can even be a question.

Misogyny is real. Transphobia is real. They intersect, and multiply each other in magnitude.

Women are treated as "lesser," "weaker," and "submissive" in our patriarchal society.

Trans people threaten the legitimacy of gender discrimination and the patriarchy, because it assumes our gender roles are not set in stone.

Trans women voluntarily leave the "powerful" role.

It's for this reason why most anti-trans laws passed demonize trans women instead of trans men. The "Trans woman predator in the restroom" is a trope that is cited in almost every legislative body seeking to outlaw our existence. The "trans woman taking over women's sports" too.

Trans women leaving the "powerful" male role for the "submissive" female role seems absolutely impossible to fathom for a patriarchal society that believes gender is set in stone.

So they make sense of it by saying we MUST be predators.

And this elicits a violent reaction.

I've done some digging to see where the latest claim that transmisogyny isn't real comes from, and it seems to be centered on a statistic centered on a recent study that showed trans men had received more violence than trans women. I had to dig heavily for the study and found it.

The study is "Gender Identity Disparities in Criminal Victimization: National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017–2018," which says trans women received 86.2 victimizations/1000 people and trans men 107.5/1000.

However, those quoting the statistic did NOT read the study.

1) The sample size is very small, and the error bars are very large. The difference is NOT statistically significant, with the top end of the trans femme range actually being ABOVE the trans masc range.

2) The study is on ALL victimizations, not crime types.

#1 is absolutely a problem because the error bars are extremely large. There is not nearly enough of a sample size to compare the two.

But #2 is, in fact, a larger problem... because of the TYPES of crimes committed.

In the study, 27% of trans women said the crimes committed against them were hate crimes. _Only_ trans women reported significance on this factor.

This is an astounding number. 27% of _all crimes_ against trans women are reported as hate crimes. That's 3x higher than what you would normally expect to see among a general sampling of the population, which can experience hate crimes across many other axes of marginalization.

There's not enough data yet from the NCVS. Hopefully in coming years, there will be more. But I anticipate that hate crime victimization will be much higher for trans women, especially violent hate crimes. I believe that because of a different data set: trans murders.

Murders are the easiest of violent crimes to measure and so murder statistics tend to be best - way better than other attempts to measure victimization. Survey data and police data are hugely problematic for different reasons.

Survey data suffers from massive sampling error and bias, and police data will miss a ton of crimes.

Murders though, "there's always a body."

And among murders, the vast majority are against trans women. Particularly black and latinx trans women.

And of course, these lives lost represent some of the most heinous crimes committed against trans people, hate crimes where race, gender identity, and misogyny intersect.

I will close out by saying that trans men experience victimization. All trans people do.

But to claim transmisogyny is not real, and is an attack on transmasc people, is absurd and driven by at best, a misunderstanding of the data and theory, and at worse, bad faith actors.