The opening testimony from at the @WEP_UK members assembly on self ID stated that & #39;trans women face the same risks from men as women and girls do& #39;....https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel">.

Time for a #WEPfactcheck

#debateisnothate https://twitter.com/WepWomen/status/1306275422745878529">https://twitter.com/WepWomen/...

The UK is one of the safest EU countries to live. In fact there were no reported transgender murders in the UK at all in 2016. Since the start of the Trans Murder Monitoring project in 2008 there has been on average just under 1 transgender person murdered in the UK each year.

The question we can now ask is whether transgender people at a higher risk of being killed than the average person? The data analysis suggests that they are not.

An estimate of the UK trans population size was published by Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES)

It estimates that 1% of the UK pop. are gender non-conforming. Based on this, the trans murder rate is in fact significantly lower than for the average person

#WEPfactcheck https://fairplayforwomen.com/trans-murder-rates/">https://fairplayforwomen.com/trans-mur...

The question is, do males with a trans identity continue to commit sexual and violent offences at the same rates as other males?

There is little data on this, but the last longitudinal study examining this found.....https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel">

#WEPfactcheck https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...

... what did it find oh wise #WEPfactchecker...?

Transwomen are 6 times more likely to commit a crime & 18 times more likely to commit a violent crime compared to female controls.

And Trans women commit crime, including violent crime, at a similar rate as any other males