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Sometimes people register new accounts on websites with the sole purpose of sharing their opinion that their displeasure with trans folks is based in some sort of fact-based higher understanding of reality.

There is no explanation why they feel the need to show up out of nowhere, but often times they are parroting an off-the-shelf set of edgy opinions that one can pick up off 4chan/Kiwifarms and use as a personality. There’s a whole lot of folks like that, and sometimes people in this group that compulsively regurgitate edgy youtuber clickbait in lieu of practicing critical thinking also can be dangerous!

Sometimes people register new accounts so they don't get doxxed for dissenting on controversial topics.

Yep! This is completely compatible with what I described! The people that use these prepackaged edgy personas often don’t actually believe their own dogma enough to stand behind it.

This makes sense because they’re usually not actually expressing personally-held opinions, they are performing a cathartic act of being contrarian in order to cement their position as being both smarter than average and signaling that they’re part of an orthodox group. It’s a lazy performance of disgust for the sake of attention.

To further respond to your original question, these people that value performing disgust using pre-digested replacements for personalities can sometimes become dangerous! And there are a lot of them!

I hope you feel better now you got all that nonsense off your chest.

By performing a perfunctory Google search you can answer your own question. Notably, [0] exists. Of course this isn't exhaustive research by any measure.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_killed_for_bein...

So, no mobs then, and mostly people working in prostitution - a notoriously dangerous occupation in itself.

Yes, especially dangerous for trans women, as they're targeted and murdered more often.

There is no increased risk of being a victim of violence for being transgender that is not fully accounted for by the increased risk of engaging in prostitution. It is just that transgender people tend to have higher rates of prostitution.

Simply not true, violence against transgender women is 1/4 where as cis women are 1/10. "Transgender people tend to have higher rates of prostitution" is baseless.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-pres...

The data you cite does not say what you think it does. In fact, it makes the very mistake I was pointing out in my original post -- failing to control for rates of prostitution and other risky behavior and simply comparing rates of violence based on gender only.

Simply citing a study that makes no attempt to control for rates of prostitution does not disprove my argument. Repeating a myth does not make it true, even if you repeat it over and over again.

Now pull up the statistics for genuine women and see how they compare. You'll find it's much, much worse. But no-one pushing this transgender ideology gives a shit about actual female women do they, only the special ones with cocks and sob stories about how hard it is pretending to be a woman.

Deeply weird to make a throwaway account only to complain about trans women, you think?

For starters, the three people that jumped me in April 2022 and called me a mentally ill pedophile and put me in a hospital bed for several days. (I am a visibly GNC person who does not appear clearly male or female).

I was fortunate to have been well practiced in drawing and discharging my mace canister or it could have been significantly worse. A lot of physical trauma can be (and was) inflicted in 5 seconds.

This is not a particularly exceptional experience among my other non-cis friends. Not all of have suffered violence, but being threatened with it is nearly universal.

That's unfortunate that you were a victim of random violence, but it doesn't support your claim that there are mobs roaming around targeting trans people. That is a paranoid fantasy that isn't backed up by any evidence.

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