Some scary facts

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http://www.liminalis.de/project.html

"Every 3rd day the murder of a trans person is reported - Preliminary results of a new Trans Murder Monitoring Project show more than 200 reported cases of murdered trans people from January 2008 to June 2009"

These are just the ones reported and in many cases trans woman = "man in a dress" as far as the authorities and media go. From the reports:

Over 60% of reported murders are by current or former intimate partners

Most murders happened at close range and often targeted the genitalia of the victim

Brazil - hotbed of Shemale porn is the trans murder capital of the world.

Given the small number of trans women in the world this is sobering.