One of the approaches trans activists take is claiming that trans people are the victims of a lot of violence, in particular against male-to-female trans people, and especially black male-to-female trans people. But here’s what’s going on, the gist of which is that most of the victims met deaths that had nothing to do with their trans identities and everything to do with the environments in which they were living or operating (read the article for the details).

But the best way to get a leg up in the victim-identity competition on the left these days is to claim a higher degree of victimhood, and at the moment the trans community has been winning that skirmish.

[This is the process of late-stage wokery. By creating classifications of people and setting victimhood terms by either immutable characteristics or identitarian fads, irresolvable conflict gets woven into the culture. That necessitates a top-down management of victimhood hierarchies, which also not coincidentally gives the progressives pushing this nonsense even more power, both culturally and politically. — Ed]