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:
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