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Trump says Biden and liberals are perverts and assholes.

A single incident of anti-transgender harassment on the
Washington, D.C., metro in the past two years has prompted an ad
campaign to fight such hate across the city.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in May
launched a campaign—funded with money from its $2.9 million
annual advertising budget—at stations across the D.C. area
pledging to make "Metro safer" by reducing harassment of
transgender passengers. One advertisement features a white male
with a man bun and beard yelling "transphobic slurs" at a gender-
ambiguous person sitting on a train.

"NOT IN OUR HOUSE," the ad reads while also encouraging D.C.-
area straphangers to report such incidents to the Metro Transit
Police Department (MTPD).

Yet such incidents have almost never occurred, according to a
Washington Free Beacon analysis of public crime data provided by
the MTPD and the FBI. Metro police have not recorded a single
incident of harassment or violence on the basis of race or
gender in 2022 or 2021 and just one anti-transgender bias
incident in 2020. Federal data additionally show that over 99
percent of anti-trans incidents in the last decade do not
involve white men.

The ad campaign comes as D.C. residents flee public
transportation due to fears of seemingly random acts of violence
on the metro. Metro ridership has dropped 80 percent since the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which also corresponded with
a sharp uptick in violent crime.

Anti-transgender hate crimes in 2020 accounted for less than 3
percent of all hate crimes recorded by the FBI, with black
people as the most common offenders.

In the 28 anti-transgender hate crimes in D.C. logged by the FBI
in 2020, none of the offenders were white. The same FBI
statistics show that in the last 10 years white people have been
responsible for just 2 out of the 217 recorded anti-transgender
hate crimes in the city.

Source: FBI

Requests for more information from the WMATA on the ad
campaign's cost went unanswered. Although an employee said the
agency does keep records on harassment incidents, that person
declined to provide them. An employee of the agency's anti-hate
crime task force told the Free Beacon that he is not supposed to
talk to reporters.

The D.C. government announced in April it will increase police
presence at Metro facilities as a response to plummeting
ridership and a spike in certain violent crimes. According to
WMATA data, aggravated assaults doubled from April 2021 to April
2022.

D.C. authorities in 2021 recorded a five-year high of 183
assaults at public transportation facilities. D.C.-area workers'
decisions to work from home or take alternative transit have
resulted in a nearly $500 million budget shortfall for the D.C.
metro system projected by summer 2023.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/dc-launches-ad-campaign-to- combat-anti-trans-hate-on-public-transportation-theres-been-one- incident-in-the-past-two-years/

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