Trans person found shot dead in Jacksonville, Making it 4 this year in Jax alone
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http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180625/transgender-woman-found-shot-to-death-at-jacksonville-hotel
A third black transgender woman died Sunday in a shooting at a Southside hotel, with Jacksonville now making up 23 percent of the transgender homicides for the nation.
JSO responded to the shooting sometime after 1 p.m. Sunday in the 8300 block of Dix Ellis Trail, where a gunshot victim was pronounced dead at the Quality Inn.
Based on JSO’s description of the victim, she’s believed to be a transgender woman in her 20s.
So far, the only suspect information available at this time is that investigators are looking for a male in a beige vehicle.
The Human Rights Campaign has tracked each homicide case where a victim identified as trans, and at least 13 as of Sunday have occurred in the United States. Three of those occurred right here on the First Coast.
The first one this year occurred on Feb. 4, when 36-year-old Celine Walker was found shot and killed inside a room at the Extended Stay America in the Southpoint area.
The second transgender homicide occurred June 1, when 38-year-old Antash’a English was found with a gunshot wound to the abdomen between two abandoned homes in the 1500 block of Ella Street. She later died at a hospital.
A vigil was held on June 7 for English, with members coming together to not only pay tribute to her memory but raise money for her burial and funeral service. The vigil and benefit show raised enough funds to cover the cost of that service.
https://twitter.com/CourtneyANJax/status/1010990549531353089
Why are nearly 1/4 of transgender homicides in the US in just one city?
Is there any reason to believe she was shot because of her being transgender? Jacksonville is already an unsafe city to live in.
Are the other cases solved? Maybe it's one guy.
The other two Jacksonville cases are not solved. Sounds like they don't have much to go on either. I was hoping they maybe caught something on camera with this one considering it was inside a hotel. But that suspect and vehicle description is very vague, so doesn't look like it.
not unpheasable - it's a fact that transgender individuals are much more likely to be murdered in the US than your average citizen, but the fact that 23% of trans murders in the country occur in one city is pretty suspect
it's a fact that transgender individuals are much more likely to be murdered in the US than your average citizen
This is false
Even comparing the numbers of trans murders divided by the trans population yields a far lower number than the average US homicide rate rate(which is absurdly high for a first world nation anyway).
RESULTS:
The overall homicide rate of transgender individuals was likely to be less than that of cisgender individuals, with 8 of 12 RR estimates below 1.0. However, the homicide rates of young transfeminine Black and Latina residents were almost certainly higher than were those of cisfeminine comparators, with all RR estimates above 1.0 for Blacks and all above 1.0 for Latinas.
Your own source just goes to show that your claim is only true for caucasians.
Either way, there's no indication that trans murder is much more likey, as the post I was quoting claimed. I'm not saying that these deaths aren't a problem, just that I feel that claims like these help no one.
However, the homicide rates of young transfeminine Black and Latina residents were almost certainly higher than were those of cisfeminine comparators, with all RR estimates above 1.0 for Blacks and all above 1.0 for Latinas.
This is comparing trans women and cis women. Considering that black or latino men are over five times more likely to be murdered than black or latino women, that still doesn't speak much for the averages.
You're missing factors such as those motivated to perform such killings seeing the transfeminine victims as confused men; in this light they ought to be considered a part of the male homicide statistics for comparison purposes when talking motives.
In short, you would do better to present a study that isn't paywalled to see the full details of. You're drawing large conclusions from a mere abstract.
Of which the victim in the article is not. (caucasian)
I never realized how many murders happened in my city before now. Thanks for making me google it.
The people who rated the OP funny are cunts.
At my uni I have access to the article you shared. The multiplier* risk of homocide for being trans ranges from like 1.5x to 80x depending on the categories being compared (black transfeminine vs black cismasculine) and on the potential of undereporting of trans deaths (from no under-reporting up to 4 in 5 under-reporting)
