{"id":2808,"date":"2026-06-23T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:39:07","slug":"mayor-brandon-johnson-declares-a-transfemicide-crisis-ignores-hundreds-of-black-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Brandon Johnson declares a ‘transfemicide’ crisis, ignores hundreds of black deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town: Or it was some time ago when Frank Sinatra sang about it.<\/p>\n

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Now it\u2019s in the throes of something called a \u201cTransfemicide State of Emergency,\u201d according to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, with no time for a little toddling around the dance floor.<\/p>\n

Posting to his X account, Johnson announced in all apparent seriousness: \u201cSince declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City\u2019s capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city, he continued, is \u201ccentering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTransfemicide\u201d is the \u201ctargeted killing of a transgender woman motivated by transphobic and misogynistic hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago implemented its state of emergency in 2024.<\/p>\n

You may think such a thing is necessary because of the many, many murders of trans Chicagoans happening daily.<\/p>\n

In fact, only one trans person was killed in Chicago in all of last year \u2014 and the incident appears to have been a matter of domestic violence unrelated to their trans status.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s not \u201cTransfemicide State of Emergency\u201d sad.<\/p>\n

Smokescreen issue<\/h2>\n

American cities are sinking, and few embody this decline more than Chicago.<\/p>\n

Last week, over the Juneteenth three-day weekend, 39 people were shot in Chi-town and six killed.<\/p>\n

None of them were trans.<\/p>\n

That is not considered a state of emergency \u2014 it\u2019s just an average weekend in Chicago, a city that saw 416 murders last year, many of them young black men.<\/p>\n

And those 416 killings were seen as a win for the city, representing the lowest homicide rate in 60 years.<\/p>\n

But when you\u2019re still tallying more than a murder a day, perhaps the celebrations should be somewhat muted lest an SUV pulls up and starts spraying the party with bullets, as occurred at a Juneteenth celebration a few days ago.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chicagoans\u2019 quality of life continues to deteriorate, and people and businesses are leaving in droves.<\/p>\n

When Ken Griffin took his company Citadel and its talents to Miami, Chicago lost billions of dollars in tax revenue and spending.<\/p>\n

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Right now its NFL team, the Chicago Bears, has one foot out the door on the way to Indiana.<\/p>\n

Yet its mayor is wasting his time on all-but-nonexistent \u201ctransfemicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago has the same population, around 2.7 million, as it did 100 years ago \u2014 a lack of growth that tells the story of a city in deep trouble.<\/p>\n

So its leaders are making up nonsense crises as a smokescreen for the troubles that actually exist.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obviously so much easier to blather about \u201ccentering voices and lived experiences\u201d than it is to solve their city\u2019s dire problems.<\/p>\n

Party problem<\/h2>\n

After all, Chicago is a one-political-party town \u2014 so part of the quiet on its ongoing mess is that there\u2019s no Republican to blame.<\/p>\n

The last Republican to hold any significant government job in Chicago was John J. Hoellen Jr., a City Council alderman in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Chicago hasn\u2019t had a Republican mayor since the 1930s.<\/p>\n

And solving actual problems would mean taking on entrenched leftist interests that grow by the year.<\/p>\n

Nobody wants to do that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why, for example, Chicago public schools still had COVID closure days in the 2022 school year, long after pandemic closures were lifted elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Teachers\u2019 unions could easily flex their muscles, and did.<\/p>\n

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What are politicians going to do, oppose them? Not likely.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s far easier to issue proclamations larded with words no one understands, so politicians do just that.<\/p>\n

They signal to the right people that everyone\u2019s on the same team, and not to worry about any uncomfortable changes that could actually improve anything for the people.<\/p>\n

Who knows? Johnson could even declare victory.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s his \u201cTransfemicide State of Emergency\u201d that\u2019s keeping trans people from being murdered in his city \u2014 the \u201clived experience\u201d of non-trans Chicagoans who get murdered every weekend notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

Karol Markowicz is the host of the \u201cKarol Markowicz Show\u201d and \u201cNormally\u201d podcasts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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