Monday, July 4, 2022

When there is a mass shooting, transphobes start rumors that the shooter is trans

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.

Erin Reed on Twitter, July 5, 2022: Brace for the anti-trans hate because Robert Crimo wore women's clothes during his shooting: He is NOT transgender. He was arrested in men's clothes. He attended Trump rallies and was active in fascist communities. He's likely trolling while engaging in mass murder.

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:

Alejandra Caraballo on X: Sept 6, 2024: Far right influencers are falsely attributing Colt Gray, the Georgia shooter, as being a 'trans activist.' This was based on unclear reporting from CNN. CNN has now updated their story to indicate that Colt expressed frustration that 'trans people were being accepted by society.'

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