{"id":673324,"date":"2026-09-23T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=673324"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:24:04","slug":"boston-globe-op-ed-checks-the-numbers-on-anti-trans-violence-and-finds-a-decline-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=673324","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe op-ed checks the numbers on anti-trans violence \u2014 and finds a decline under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new Boston Globe op-ed, written by a former\u00a0USA Today<\/em> columnist, used statistics to crush the woke left\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n

Despite the hysterical reporting that violence against transgender people is skyrocketing under President Donald Trump, David Mastio<\/a> says that is not the case. Using statistics from Advocates for Trans Equality and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), he laid out the truth: There has been a significant decline in the number of violent deaths recorded over the last few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvocacy groups insist the data is incomplete and shouldn\u2019t be used to draw any conclusions about the prevalence of anti-trans violence,\u201d he explains in his piece titled. \u201cIn Trump\u2019s America, violence against transgender people isn\u2019t going up \u2014 it\u2019s going down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s due, they say, to the bigotry of families and authorities who misname and misgender the victims, making it hard to discern from public records how many transgender people are dying,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cStill it\u2019s hard to imagine that as awareness about the transgender community has grown, misgendering and pronoun-swapping have become more common in police reports and news accounts than they were a decade ago, when another prominent LGBTQ organization, the Human Rights Campaign, began publishing its own numbers on violence against transgender people,\u201d Mastio continued. \u201cThe HRC tallies, too, find a declining number of violent transgender deaths to mourn. The group found a peak in 2021 of 47 deaths falling to 27 last year. HRC described that 40 percent drop as an \u2018ongoing onslaught of violence.’\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Trump administration has not been a friend to the transgender community like former President Joe Biden\u2019s regime, it appears that trans-identifying individuals are at least safer than they used to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut despite a hostile Trump administration and a barrage of anti-trans legislation across the country, the number of violent deaths the group documents has fallen nearly 50 percent from 53 in 2023 to 27 in 2025,\u201d the piece reads.<\/p>\n

A statement from The Advocates for Trans Equality indicates that they aren\u2019t celebrating the downturn, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone claiming trans people are safer today under the Trump administration is ignoring what\u2019s happening. Right now, everyone in this country, trans people included, is facing Medicaid cuts, soaring gas prices, ICE terrorizing our communities, and attacks on the right to vote. On top of that, attacks on trans people have been relentless,\u201d they said. \u201cThis year alone, lawmakers across the country introduced over 700 anti-trans bills. Trans people are being cut off from gender-affirming care, denied IDs that match who they are, and housed in prisons that don\u2019t match their gender. Any one of these makes trans people less safe. Together, they are a deliberate, hateful attack on the trans community under this administration, and people will die because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A new Boston Globe op-ed, written by a former\u00a0USA Today columnist, used statistics to crush the woke left\u2019s narrative. Despite the hysterical reporting that violence against transgender people is skyrocketing under President Donald Trump, David Mastio says that is not the case. Using statistics from Advocates for Trans Equality and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC),… Continue reading Boston Globe op-ed checks the numbers on anti-trans violence \u2014 and finds a decline under Trump<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}