benjamin KOPPEL

That narrative has been pushed for over a decade by the Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) in their annual "Epidemic of Violence" reports, and has been referenced by presidents, medical organizations, journalists, activists, and even used to justify legislation and government programs. But when we independently verified all 304 transgender homicide cases in HRC’s own comprehensive victim lists from 2015–2024, their narrative completely collapsed. What we found: - And among identified suspects, most perpetrators were black, not white. - Transgender homicide rates are below the general population rate. - Only 3.3% of cases resulted in confirmed hate-crime determinations. - The leading identified circumstance was intimate partner violence, not anti-trans bias. In 2020, when the “white-supremacy-fueled epidemic of violence” narrative was being pushed especially hard, there were ZERO identified white suspects. We also show how the HRC manufactures their false narrative. In a 2021 report, HRC pointed to the deaths “four Black transgender women” that HRC cited in a report titled “Black LGBTQ People and Compounding Discrimination” as proof that “white supremacy” was driving an “epidemic of violence.” But the actual facts did not match their narrative. One case remained unsolved, with no public evidence of anti-trans bias or anything tied to white supremacy. In the other three cases, every identified suspect was a black man. By the time HRC published its report, arrests had already been made and these basic facts were public. In other words, HRC took four cases and spun them into evidence for a political narrative that the known facts did not support. The truth matters, not just for its own sake, but because false narratives will inevitably produce ineffective solutions. If the deaths of transgender people are the result of a hate-crime epidemic driven by white supremacy and transphobia, then a reasonable response might be more anti-bias campaigns. But if the main problem is intimate partner violence, then the most-effective interventions would likely include domestic-violence services tailored to trans-identified victims, emergency housing for people trying to flee abusive relationships, and other violence reduction efforts in the places where these killings occur. Federal government and state governments have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars implementing ineffective policies based on the HRC's lies. Now that the facts are finally public, ignorance is no longer an excuse. The HRC has a choice: keep repeating a false story that serves progressive ideology, or finally face facts and respond to the problem as it actually exists. Read about our detailed findings in our new @CityJournal article below. 🔗city-journal.org/article/human-…