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V-coding

Causing rape of trans prisoners for social control

48×
vs its own baseline
47×
year on year
+29.0%
per month, last 90 days
71
confidence / 100
0k 5k 9k 14k where it used to sit Nov 24 Apr 25 Aug 25 Dec 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 93 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 1,623% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

17.23×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

35%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

38%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.87× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

598 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

In the context of incarceration in the United States, V-coding is the common practice by carceral staff of subjecting trans women to sexual assault by placing the woman in the same prison cell as an aggressive male inmate in order to placate the male inmate. This practice has been known to have caused the daily rapes of multiple trans women, and the sexual assaults of 58.5% of them. V-coding is done to pacify the male inmate, with the goal of reducing their propensity for violence against other inmates, according…

Excerpt from V-coding on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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