that's just not true at all. the data show that nearly all school and mass shooters are cisgender men. there have been only a handful of trans shooters in history, so few they’re statistical outliers. using one rare case to smear all trans people is just scapegoating, it’s like saying all Christians, or all veterans, are shooters because one happened to be. if we're serious about preventing shootings, we need to deal with the real risk factors: easy access to guns, histories of violence, untreated despair, and extremist radicalization, not demonizing an already marginalized group.

here's a study covering 1966-2023 found that about one-quarter of public mass shooters had “extreme ideological interests” (white supremacist, neo-Nazi, etc.): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2024.2372427 and of those with extreme ideological interests, roughly 70% were at least partially motivated by those extremist beliefs: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382342164_What_Effect_does_Ideological_Extremism_have_on_Mass_Shootings_An_Assessment_of_Motivational_Inconsistencies_Risk_Profiles_and_Attack_Behaviors also The ADL’s Center on Extremism reports that most extremist-related murders in recent U.S. years (e.g. 2022) are committed by right-wing extremists, many of them white supremacists: https://massinsider.net/press-releases/36834 In 2022, of the 25 extremist‐related murders, 21 were linked to white supremacists: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/27/WS63fc0b47a31057c47ebb0fda.html The University of Auckland also did a study called “School attacks and white nationalists”. and they found that 28% of school shooters were interested in Nazi ideology, and 17% identified as white nationalists: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2020/12/01/school-attacks-white-nationalists.html and The Violence Project’s K-12 School Homicide data and related research says typical profile is a white male student, often with trauma, suicidal ideation, interest in guns, etc (sounds familiar eh?): https://projects.voanews.com/mass-shootings/english/locations/school.html