# Trafalgar Square's Trans Artwork Obscures Violence Against Women - UnHerd ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/uploaded_book_covers/profile_1188016/GettyImages-2171993925.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[unherd.com]] - Full Title: Trafalgar Square's Trans Artwork Obscures Violence Against Women - UnHerd - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - URL: https://unherd.com/newsroom/trafalgar-squares-trans-artwork-obscures-violence-against-women/?=frlh - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > According to the [*Guardian*’s review](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/18/teresa-margolles-fourth-plinth-review-transgender) yesterday, *Mil Veces in Instante* (a thousand times in an instant) is “a memorial to all transgender victims of violence”. There are countries where high numbers of transgender people are killed, and Mexico is one of them. The UK most definitely is not, with [some research](https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-trans-people-murdered-uk) suggesting that trans individuals are less likely to be murdered than the rest of the population. That’s not the impression created by the 726 faces posed eerily above the fourth plinth, all of them belonging to “trans and non-binary communities in Britain and Mexico”. > It’s pure propaganda, bolstering the zombie claim — it’s been [debunked](https://unherd.com/2022/01/the-truth-about-trans-murders/) many times — that transgender people are disproportionately at risk of murder in this country. It’s a foundational tenet of gender ideology, which holds an international transgender day of remembrance each November, making emotional claims about the number of people murdered as a result of “transphobia”. Politicians accept such claims uncritically, especially in the US where the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, marked last year’s day of remembrance with a [statement](https://www.state.gov/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2/) about people who have been “targeted and killed for living authentically and courageously”. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j87zg098dmw96y2br9dcby5f))