Blaming the prevalence of mass shootings in America on the existence of trans people isn’t just a dangerously stigmatizing, politically motivated take. It’s also bad math. "Transgender individuals are much more prone to being the victims of violence than they are likely to commit it.”
Most mass shooters are white, so lets ban them! (Of course, it because most of the people in the US are white, i.e. around 63%). Most mass shooters are men, so lets ban them! For some reason, no one ever suggests that.
Wasn't the shooter right wing, again? Nothing else is relevant.
Yes, it appears so. She was a white supremacist who praised far-right killers and etched neo-Nazi slogans on her guns.
ITS OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE MEN
Good article but please stop harping on the idea that trans people are a "tiny minority." Trans people are higher percentage of the U.S. population today than Jews were of Germany in 1933. The "tiny minority" thing is used by dems to treat us as disposable.
This. Also understating how many trans people there are in the US isn't helping as they think they do. The argument is trans people are less likely to commit violent crimes, sure - but accurate numbers show trans people are even far, FAR less likely to commit violent crimes. An order of magnitude!
Thank you for pointing this out—it helps me and others think more clearly regarding how we word our support & and correct others. Saying “it’s a small minority” carries the message that trans people don’t deserve rights or the protections promised in “We the People.” 1/
If you wish, statistically, by percentage, Jews in 1933 Germany made up about the same share of the population as trans people in the U.S. today. That makes the warning sharper: if it could happen to Jews in Germany, it could happen here. Am I learning this correctly?
These same people don't even think Trans people are real. So to them, this is another white male that did this. So either they think they are real and valid or they don't. Don't allow them to have it both ways.
Truth
The alphabet letter formerly known as twitter is censoring all of my attempts to share the above article as hate, but apparently the replies trolling it are fine. I also have to keep proving I'm human. Freedom of speech my ass.
Always looking to blame someone else
They still can astound me? I thought that phase was over. Nope, it's not.
It also demonstrates MAGA's overwhelming need to use scapegoating to explain the world to themselves.
They know it, but lying, dshnsty are thr North Star. They are slaves to these things and don't know it. The Bible says ur a slave to what Controls u. Lies, dshnsty, racism, prejudice, self-righteousness, evil hearts, controls thm. These Dgens are in slavery and don't even know it.
This. We're just so fucking exhausted fighting the lies of the groomer narrative that we forget things like the 4chan kekism feminization cult are both real and alive and well. Who got their hotglued fingerprints all over the Minneapolis shooter.
Kelly Anne Conway's alternate facts, get used to it for the next few years.
It's also unrelated to the subject, so please to engage
More mental health help for trans people. Many aren’t violent but they are mad at the life situation chance has dealt to them.
If trans people are angry it's because the election of Trump has led to the wholesale reversal of all civil rights gains of the past 20 years. It was the exact opposite of "chance". It was a coordinated attack by zealots on the right, beginning with religious stink tanks and professional liars...
like Chris Rufo and the Daily Wire creeps. Trump himself wallpapered Youtube with lies about schools conducting sex change operations. There is no "chance" here. It wasn't random. You just subtly lied now claiming "many" trans people aren't violent.
No, just like any other minority population, trans people are five 9s non-violent. The article you are commenting on literally explains why what you just said is a lie. Did you even read it?
Most shooters are right wing nutters.
Anyone pushing this lie is a product of white Christian nationalism.
We need to stop treating trans people and mentally ill people as scapegoats for our severe lack of gun control laws. Only 2 out of the thousands of school shootings have had a trans shooter involved, and statically, marginalized people are more likely to be victims and hurt themselves, not others.
It’s 4 in the last decade. That doesn’t alarm me. What does alarm me is that every one of them was bullied—or outright tormented—in school. That’s unacceptable. If you really want to look at why mass school shootings happen by trans people, start there. #ISupportTransPeople
GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS and not enough deaths (if ever) to make any meaningful changes to gun ownership laws. 😵💫🫠🧐
Lies all the time
It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns. It’s still the guns.
It's mind boggling the way they just make up these statistics, when 1 can easily look up the actual statistics on this; in today's day & age. They just say whatever they want. These people are playing the worst game of telephone ever. That's what it reminds me of, Everytime 1 of them speaks.
and they still blame a trans kid, not the system that drove a kid to see violence as their only recourse... #individualism
This!! My feelings exactly!
#RepublicansLie like they breathe
It's time to acknowledge the fact that the Republican Party is a domestic terrorist organization.
Or antidepressants.
Or needed antidepressants.