There is a Libertarian campaign to do that in New Hampshire - https://freestateproject.org/
Democrats moving up from MA probably overwhelm their numbers.
Not really. Not if you look at it logically. That is not saying it isn’t immensely tragic for those involved. It doesn’t mean that an increase in murders of one or two in a small geographic area wouldn’t be a cause for concern. But stating that 12 murders for multiple unrelated reasons in a country of 400 million with about 14,000 murders a year is an epidemic is ridiculous. That article doesn’t attempt to portray itself as unbiased and even then they couldn’t tie all of them to hate crimes. Your post stated that the slight increase in trans women murders was an answer to the OP as to why there is more media attention. With the numbers given that is illogical. 12 murders in Chicago over the weekend probably wouldn’t even make the national news.
I don’t know == some of us remember quite a bit of front-page news about Christine Jorgensen.
Orthodox jews moved to Lakewood NJ in large numbers and are taking over the city government due to their voting power. They are now about half of the population and growing. Obviously that is no where near the scale of a large group going going to a state.
Ergo, the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
I question those numbers. Wikipedia gives a range of 0.02% - 0.002% for males and 0.012% - 001% for females.
You can question Cecil’s figures if you wish. But I used a calculator. 0.3 percent of America’s population really is right around 964,000 people.
He doesn’t give a source for his numbers. Hence my question, so you’re damn right I’m going to question it… Your math is good, but that’s not the issue.
For the same reason that gay people became a big deal despite being a minority of the population. When you’re seeking civil and social rights, you kinda have to push for publicity. Ultimately, your minority has to convince the majority that your cause is just
Reminds me of C. W. McCall’s early-1970’s-era facetious and somewhat hippie-hating song “Crispy Critters”, in which hippies take over a town. Allegedly (according to Bill Fries, one of the songwriters), this describes a true incident that happened in Telluride, Colorado.
You can push but does that mean the media has to cover it? Throughout the years there have been complaints about various big marches and demonstrations that were ignored by the media. The question was, “why so much media attention now?” The answer is almost always ratings. I am Cait and I am Jazz are not on TV because people are fighting for rights. There are on because the networks think they will make money.
The product placement buy in the Jim Carrey movie didn’t pay off, I guess.
I’m in Wyoming right now. the desk clerk at the hotel is transgender. So, maybe it’s begun.
For all the wisecracks, that’s exactly why what Caitlyn Jenner is doing matters. Transgender activists have been trying to get attention for their cause for a long time, but it’s hard to get the media interested unless you have a compelling, ratings-grabbing story, which Jenner provides.
It’s the Williams Institute study, something found by Googling “0.3%” and “transgender”.
The problem is the label “transgender” is so broad that it could encompass a large number of folks. I have no trouble seeing 0.3% (3 in a thousand) or more being transgender. The question is how many are transsexual, and sometimes transgender is used synonymously with transsexual. Transsexual women in the US number about 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 10,000, and transsexual men number about 1 in 15,000 to 1 in 30,000. The numbers for transsexual men have a much higher error band, however, and are typically thought to be low.
I have conducted a census of the KC Metro area transgender population, and found that out of a population of about 2,050,000 people, I know for certain of 616 transgender persons, in that they are transgender “enough” that they have at least changed their public gender presentation, sought changes in gender markers, come out to their family and/or friends as such, or are medically changing/changed. That is 1 in 3,327. But note that is a subset of of the transgender population, who I am not counting - I only counted people who are actually trying to or want very much to change.
And since I didn’t do a broad survey of any sort, I could have undercounted by a factor of 10:1 for all I know. My count sets the minimum number.
It’s a chicken and egg thing. As more of us are visible, public, and successful, more of us are encouraged to come out. As the general public sees us in public positions and sees that we aren’t monsters, we aren’t freaks, we’re Americans trying to live and love and work and play and carry out our own American Dreams, we start to be a whole lot less “scary.”
I believe that my people finally reached a tipping point with the Macy v. Holder decision, when we finally started having a precedent to sue over job discrimination. Next came gradual improvements in gender marker policies, from states and the Obama Administration (such as Social Security and passport regulations), his Administration’s Title VII and Title IX interpretations, and the fact that we started winning a lot of cases in court which made employers and schools start to notice. Some of the cases, which I’m not at liberty say which ones in particular, have been settled out of court for near 7-figure awards. I know several attorneys who claim they have never lost a transgender discrimination case since Macy.
It’s a very similar progression to gay visibility and rights. In the later 1970’s and 1980’s, people started to wonder why there were so many gay people showing up on TV. By the 1990’s they had moved from being the butt of comedy to “mostly normal” characters in dramas. We’re following the same path.
Who? Canseco? He’s still alive? This time will he take hormones to make his boobs larger?
The common and the ordinary are not newsworthy, only the rare, unusual, unexpected, and unique.
What if a trans-gender person decides to switch back? Is it wrong to dead-name by their trans name or is it more wrong to dead-dead-name by their original name? What’s in a name, anyway? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And who actually won those gold medals, Bruce or Caitlin? Or the Caitlin-within-Bruce? Things I ponder.
People in the 80s were way ahead of the pack.