Ironically, a study, about how gay men find their acceptance in the larger LGBTQ community is dependent upon their agreement with trans issues, also illustrates why trans people have become the most common mass shooters.
The trans cohort unanimously endorsed the proposition that disagreement is treated as violence or emotional injury(11/11), while the gay cohort overwhelmingly rejected that proposition (33/38 ≈ 86.8% “No”). This divergence indicates that the meaning of dissent is moralized in one group and normalized in the other. In developmental terms, when dissent is construed as injury, authenticity becomes morally disallowed, producing self-surveillance rather than dialogue (Erikson, 1668).
- https://psychform.com/lgbtq-umbrella-pre...-identity/
That's 100% of trans people thinking disagreement is actual violence... which can then justify actual violence.
From Wikipedia - Misinformation about violence by transgender people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinforma...der_people
Quote:In the 2020s, right-wing sources have falsely claimed that transgender people committed disproportionately higher rates of violence such as mass shootings or terror attacks. Additionally, various hoaxes misidentified perpetrators of violent events as being transgender. This misinformation is primarily spread on social media. Within the United States, it has been amplified by Trumpist voices such as Donald Trump Jr.,
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Numbers vary across study and methodology, depending on factors such as how such crimes are defined, but studies do not show a disproportionate rate of violence among transgender people. According to a 2024 analysis by the Poynter Institute, transgender people represent 0.1–1.5% of shooters in the US, and make up 0.5–1.6% of the population.[15] Experts on gun violence agree that transgender people do not represent a disproportionate threat, and there is no evidence to suggest they are more likely to commit violent crimes than the general population.
Leftists alternate between counting gang-related mass shootings or not to fit their need at any given time. Most of the time they ignore it, so they can claim white males do the most shootings. But here, it serves their purpose to suddenly include gang-related shootings, to skew the percent of trans shooters.
So you have to choose. It's either black and brown people commit the most mass shootings per capita or trans people do. You wanna sound more racist or more transphobic?
This could be the cherry tree that just keeps on giving.
In your OP..
Syne Wrote:..trans people have become the most common mass shooters.
Can you support that claim with anything vaguely fact based?
In 2025 and early 2026, data from major tracking organizations shows a downward trend in school shootings compared to previous years. Because definitions vary between databases, total incident counts for 2025 range from as few as 18 (incidents with injuries/deaths during school hours) to as many as 233 (any gun brandished or fired on school property).
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Of the 18 school shootings tracked by Education Week in 2025, there was one confirmed incident involving a shooter who identified as transgender.
- Google AI
That's 5.6%, even not including the latest one in Canada or the Rhode Island one at a high school hockey game (not school grounds).
It'll never become the equivalent "troubled and violent" Vietnam veteran trope often sported in movies and television of the 1970s. The entertainment industry knew that it was exploiting controversial stereotypes back then, but it just didn't care about the wide range of its impiety, insensitivity and impoliteness during that era. The opposite for that enterprise today -- though privileged population groups and classically reviled Ulster Scots culture, capitalism, and the West can still be fair game (the innate human need to find a devil somewhere never ends in even extremely monitored and restricted circumstances).
Not everything that happens is necessarily typical of a certain demographic. Some things are exceptions or outliers and not indicative of any shared tendency at all. And then there are other factors that more determinative of becoming a shooter than one's sexual identity--like being bullied a lot in school.
MR Wrote:..And then there are other factors that more determinative of becoming a shooter than one's sexual identity--like being bullied a lot in school.
I'd guess deviation from the norm would mark folks out as a target.
In the village I grew up in there was always a group of teenagers hanging about in the centre. They wore what were known as 'bovver boots' (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovver_boot ). While there was some association with football I'd guess similar gatherings could be found throughout millions of years of human evolution. Their main source of entertainment was 'dealing with' (beating up) anyone suspected of deviation - black, gay or just looking at them 'funny'. Locally they'd just get you on the ground either semi-conscious or actually unconscious - then kick you and take anything of value. They were skilled enough that the injuries were never serious enough for the police to regard them as an assault and .. perhaps your wallet just fell out of your pocket. Never any witnesses. Is this the group Syne wants to bring back (if they ever went away)?
(Feb 23, 2026 11:10 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]Their main source of entertainment was 'dealing with' (beating up) anyone suspected of deviation - black, gay or just looking at them 'funny'. Locally they'd just get you on the ground either semi-conscious or actually unconscious - then kick you and take anything of value. They were skilled enough that the injuries were never serious enough for the police to regard them as an assault and .. perhaps your wallet just fell out of your pocket. Never any witnesses. Is this the group Syne wants to bring back (if they ever went away)?
Seems you're more likely to excuse such behavior:
(Feb 19, 2026 05:33 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]A school of thought is that without Ninja training you're as likely to end up being stabbed by your own knife as having any opportunity to use it. I've been attacked in the street (twice) - neither time (surprise!) was I given a warning that would have given me time to draw a knife (or gun).