Paul Weeldreyer
Nov 1 · 2 min read

What is it about trans activists and writers that you always have to misrepresent what people said.

A: I’m saying that the narrative right now from trans activists is that there is an epidemic of murder of transwomen. Without knowing how many transwomen there are, we have no idea what the actual murder rate is. Your accusation that questioning the numbers means I’m saying it doesn’t matter is laughably dishonest. Statistics and facts matter, especially when you’re encouraging people to use their social capital to work on an issue. Let’s say that next year 500 kids in the US drown in swimming pools. We would need to know how many kids normally die of drowning in swimming pools on average to know if the rate was abnormally high, wouldn’t we? But only dishonest and disingenuous people would accuse others of saying that they don’t care if children die, just because they want to know the statistics. we don’t even know if the rate of transwomen being murdered is increasing; one is too many, but you know good and well that trans activists and allies have been saying “epidemic” over and over again. Well, is it? Who knows. So how does asking that mean that a person doesn’t care if someone dies? What a dumb accusation. And you’re a decent writer, so you know what a bad faith accusation that is.

Also, where did I say that they deserved to die or it wasn’t tragic because I said that some may have been in prostitution? Go ahead, show me that quote. You wouldn’t make that accusation unless I wrote it, right? The fact is, yes, prostitution has a much higher violent crime risk for ALL women involved in it, trans and otherwise. So yes, knowing how many were involved in high risk behavior will affect the reasons for their murders; it seems as if trans activists want to assert that all 21 deaths are BECAUSE of being trans, when we actually don’t know the motives in most of the crimes. Asserting that if someone asks what activities the victim was involved in, that’s the equivalent of diminishing the wrongness of the person’s death is, again, a very disingenuous accusation. If someone you knew died of lung cancer, and you asked, “Did he smoke cigarettes,” I’m guessing you’d be taken aback if the person said, “How dare you diminish the sadness of their death!” But that’s what you’re doing; you’re saying that if someone even asks what activities a transwoman was involved in and how those activities may have made being the victim of violent crime more likely, that the person asking is saying their death doesn’t matter because they were involved in dangerous behavior. Again, very disingenuous.

You’re not going to go very far in writing if you can’t handle responses with more class and emotional restraint. Accusing people of saying things that they didn’t say isn’t a very good look.

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