“‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence Highlighted in New Report,” read a November 2023 ABC News headline. According to the report’s publisher, a Washington, D.C.-based LGBT activist group called Human Rights Campaign (HRC), this “epidemic of violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people” is a “national tragedy and a national embarrassment.”
Just to be sure that we all got the epidemic memo, HRC stuck the E-word in the title of its report—Epidemic Of Violence. USA Today,The Hill, and NBC were among the media outlets that followed ABC in uncritically repeating this epidemic narrative.
No, There’s No ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence
