Will there be a trans genocide in America in the next four years?
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There have been claims on the Internet that the new Trump administration would bring about a "trans genocide". Resolves YES if the rate of trans murders in any year between 2025 and 2028 is more than 10 times the rate in 2024. Resolves NO otherwise.

By "rate of trans murders", I mean the total number of reported murders of trans people in the USA throughout the year, divided by the number of trans people in the USA at the end of the year. Nonbinary and other gender-nonconforming people will also be included. I will use my own judgement as to which sources to trust, and expect to aggregate statistics from multiple reputable sources if there is significant disagreement.

Also automatically resolves YES if the United States federal government, or any state government, officially implements a policy in which being trans (or crossdressing, etc.) is punished by death.

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Too direct. I expect at least a 10x increase in trans death, however:

  1. Transgender identity will not be legally recognized, so there will be no official data about it

  2. Most of it will be a mixture of suicide and deaths from ambiguous causes like exposure, heat stroke, and treatable medical issues. A significant number of these will occur in prison. A non trivial but inherently anecdotal number of deaths will also be wrongly classified as suicide.

  3. If trans people are executed in increased number it will be for drug dealing (including of newly scheduled hormones and hormone suppressants), and alleged crimes against children.

  4. Police involved deaths of transgender people will also increase but these will also be deniable consequences of resisting arrest, firearms brandishing, and similar.

bought Ṁ500 NO from 6% to 5%

Agreed that the government criminalizing being trans would increase risk of death in ways beyond just direct murder.

I note that as for 3, I would still resolve YES if the government executes people for possession or use of trans-related drugs (although not for selling them). The same would apply if they execute people for crossdressing/drag in front of children, although I assume you're talking more about falsely accusing trans people of raping children.