Murders of transgender people primarily motivated by ‘intimate partner violence’ — not hate: report

Transgender people are murdered at lower rates than the overall US population — and when they are, the killer’s primary motive is usually not bias, according to a pair of researchers. The findings, published by the right-leaning Manhattan Institute’s Vincent Lundgren and Colin Wright earlier this year, seemingly debunk claims by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and other nonprofit organizations that there is an “epidemic” of deadly violence against the trangender community driven by “transphobia” and even “white supremacy.” snip In the cases where suspects were identified, black suspects accounted for 65% of perpetrators, while white suspects accounted for 18%....