Over at the Moms Demand Action Facebook page, I caught this.

A trans woman was murdered in Atlanta.

The response from the MDA comment peanut gallery was predicable.

It’s all Trump’s and the NRA’s fault.

Some of the comments makes me wonder if these people can read.

Not past the headline apparently.  If they did they’d of read:

It is not currently clear what the motive was behind Dangerfield’s murder and whether or not she was targeted because she is transgender.

“At this time we don’t have anything that’s telling us that, but we’re not ruling out any possible motive,” Patterson said.

No evidence it was a hate crime.

The victim was shot at the South Hampton Estates in College Park, GA.  College Park is a city, surrounded by Atlanta, which was listed as a murder capital in 2016.  College Park is a high crime area just outside Hartsfield-Jackson airport.

So right now what we are looking at as a person shot in a high crime neighborhood of a high crime city.

The article ends with this statement:

Thus far, at least 16 transgender people have been murdered in the United States alone this year.

Wow, that has to be…. I don’t know.

According to GLAAD “2016 was the deadliest year on record for transgender people” with a total of 21 trans people murdered.

In 2014, the CDC reports 15,872 people were the victims of homicides.

In 2015, the number was 15,696.

2016 is supposed to have a increase in murders.  The numbers are not available yet, but lets make a conservative estimate of 15,500 to 16,000.

That means of 21 murders is between 0.131% and 0.135% of all homicides.

The transgender population of America is roughly 1.4 million or 0.6%.

Going by those figures, trans people are underrepresented in homicides.

GLAAD noted that half of the 21 trans victims are people of color.  According to the FBI, in 2015, 53.1% of murder victims were black and 2.8% were “other” races, putting the “POC” category at 55.9% of murder victims.

Trans homicides are proportional by race to the general population.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not excusing any of these murders.  16,000 murders is way too many.  It is the identity politics nature of the coverage that is upsetting.

“OMG, it is a massacre of trans people and it’s all Trump’s fault!!!”  Even when the numbers don’t support that.  The narrative has to be maintained and Moms Demand Action is going to do everything to push the narrative.