Up to eleventy billion
Well, maybe, but a question arises. How, exactly, are you defining “transphobia”? How are the people reporting it defining it?
The full caption says “Map shows hotspots for sexual orientation and transgender hate crimes” but the tweet twice says the issue is reports of such “hate crimes.” The two are not the same thing, to put it mildly. Trans “activists” see “hate crimes” everywhere. Of course the stats have shot up when there is so much hyperbolic shouting about dangerous women who refuse to pretend that men are women.
Meanwhile actual violence against women goes underreported and underprosecuted.
If one person tweets and fifty people report the tweet as a ‘hate crime’, do the statistics go up by one or 50?
In other words, there has been a rise in snitching on people for using correct grammar and standing up to bullying. Probably because the demands to use incorrect grammar have increased by a similar amount.
The source for these figures is this report on hate crime statistics published by the House of Commons Library at the start of this year. The figures quoted are on p. 10.
I can’t quote chapter and verse on this but it seems to me that it is now much more fashionable than it was even a dozen years ago to claim a transgender ‘identity’ of some kind and that this may be at least a partial explanation for the jump in reported hate crimes against this group of people.
Never mind that things like stickers saying “A woman is killed or raped every 2-3 days on average,” are treated as hate crimes against the T, when they have zero to do with T. At all. Or a woman taking a photo of a ribbon on a fence — not putting it there, mind you, but merely snapping a picture of it — is treated as a hate crime against T, when there’s no connection whatever between the existence of the ribbon and anything having to do with T. It’s all imaginary. Imaginary, faux outrage for the sake of outrage, without being tethered to anything in the real world.
maddog: outrage porn is fashionable these days!