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Mourning the non-existent transexual murder epidemic

24 November 2020

5:00 AM

24 November 2020

5:00 AM

Imagine a funeral where mourners stand grieving around an empty coffin.

Those gathered for the service are inconsolable. That there is no corpse is entirely beside the point. They have a funeral at this time every year, whether anyone has actually died or not.

Welcome to Sydney’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual vigil to highlight what we are told is an epidemic of violence toward trans people by the intolerant among us.

The problem with the event, according to an ABC News report, was that organisers had struggled to find victims to remember.

The Transgender Murder Monitor, an international register of transgender homicides, has...

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