Predictably: Before a mass shooter is identified or caught, someone always starts a rumor online that the shooter is trans. And many people are happy to spread the disinformation.
They're already starting to put this blatant transphobic disinformation out there. This is absolutely baseless. For once, I wish these bastards would stop trying to blame trans people for everything. pic.twitter.com/bO3irvBgjV
— Alejandra Caraballo 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ (@Esqueer_) July 4, 2022
This disinformation has real consequences. It happened after Uvalde and could repeat itself if we don't fight back against disinformation. https://t.co/vYJKKle1nL pic.twitter.com/QuIpeYgHxe
— Alejandra Caraballo 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ (@Esqueer_) July 4, 2022
July 2023, they're doing it again: Philly Mass Shooter Was a Pro-Gun Tucker Carlson Fan, But Conservatives Are Blaming Trans People (Again)
"...an investigation by Vice found that the University of North Carolina Wilmington scraped more than 1 million images of trans people from YouTube without permission to create a dataset to learn more about terrorism. An interesting research question, seeing as a highly disproportionate number of terrorists are not transgender." — Henry Carnell, How I — a trans man — went undercover on a TERF dating site: Female-only app asserts lesbians must be ‘biologically female’, Washington Blade, August 13, 2024
September 2024, they do it with a Georgia shooter:
December 2024, they do it with a Wisconsin shooter:
I honestly don't even know what to do with this anymore. The baseless narrative that every mass shooter is trans is completely solidified on the online right. It's completely memeified. No amount of fact checking breaks through. It's so incredibly dangerous at this moment.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) December 17, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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15-yr old female shot & killed a teacher & student at abundant life christian school she attended in Wisconsin. She then killed herself. In her alleged manifesto, she expressed admiration for multiple neo-nazi Mass shooters. Conservatives already falsely labeling her trans.
— John Thelefty (@johnnthelefty.bsky.social) December 16, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Deeply unserious but also bad
Sentences I did not think I would write: Videos of mass shootings, suicides, and gore are being run through Runway's AI, turned into Minions, and then posted to social media to evade content moderation www.404media.co/minion-gore-...
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Video: Hear from the trans National Guard pilot falsely accused of flying helicopter in fatal collision. Jo Ellis, who is a transgender pilot for the National Guard speaks to CNN's Michael Smerconish after a wave of claims on social media falsely pointed to her as the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in Washington, Wednesday, killing 67 people. (CNN, February 1, 2025) On April 9, 2025, Ellis sued Matt Wallace for defamation (HuffPost). HuffPost says: "Wallace defended himself by saying he wasn’t the first account to spread the lie, which to him “[s]eemed credible because Jo Ellis wrote an article calling out Trump’s trans military ban only a few days ago” and because “[t]here have been a lot of recent school shootings & attacks carried out by trans individuals,” which is not backed by any evidence."
Musk links trans people to Tesla attacks the same day his estranged daughter criticizes him in Teen Vogue interview Liam Reilly, CNN, March 21, 2025
The Nazi you cite is a soi-disant "political strategist and commentator working with conservative movements/candidates in the US & EU. REMIGRATION NOW!" (per his profile). EVERY decent person in the US needs to speak up against these Nazis. But that´s not enough. Massive civil disobedience is need.
— 18thcenturyboy.bsky.social (@18thcenturyboy.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) August 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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September 10, 2025, HuffPost: In the HuffPost article, see Mario Nawfal's X post and look at the bottom to see what Kirk had been talking about.
At least a dozen hoaxes have claimed trans people were responsible for mass shootings and other incidents since 2012. In reality, there is no evidence suggesting significant patterns of violence committed by trans people. In 2024, The Gun Violence Archive’s Executive Director, Mark Bryant, said that out of 5,000 mass shootings tracked by the archive, the number of trans or LGBTQ+ suspects is in “the single digit numbers.” (Abby Monteil, Them, Sept 19, 2025)
Read: Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter: The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America. Erin Reed, Erin in the Morning, Sep 29, 2025
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