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How bad is the epidemic of violence against transgender women? It's hard to know

Started by stephaniec, October 21, 2015, 11:09:00 PM

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How bad is the epidemic of violence against transgender women? It's hard to know.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/20/9574239/transgender-murders-epidemic

VOX/Updated by German Lopez on October 20, 2015, 1:00 p.m. ET 

"But are these murders a growing epidemic? The answer, worryingly, is we don't know. Local, state, and federal governments don't collect much data on trans populations or violence against them, which means the 21 deaths we know about are — at best — a bare minimum, and it's unclear how big of a problem those deaths signify."
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