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[+] -7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

unless trans people are significantly greater than 0.1% of the population then this chart isn’t a flex

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Good news! Roughly 1% of US people surveyed in 2025 voluntarily identified themselves as transgender, and since a great many in the US would be too scared to reveal this info about themselves, the number may be substantially higher. But let's work with 1%.

    So it would seem like cisgender folk are at least ~10x as likely as trans folk to do mass shootings :)

    Do I think that being cisgender predisposes you to mass shootings? No, obviously. But the narrative being imposed in media is that being transgender does do so.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    @Gladaed@feddit.org it would appear our instance is defederated from yours, so I'm unable to reply directly - no parade being rained on, you're 100% correct and I'm quite aware of the issues with small sample sizes and small populations having wild variance.

    Just an insight into my thought process, I left out discussion of any rigorous statistical analysis as I didn't think it was necessary to get into the weeds to retort the "unless trans people are significantly greater than 0.1% then this chart isn't a flex" statement, which read to me as dismissive of the ongoing media narrative around transgender folk at best, and transphobic at worst.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    Even assuming that the trans population is 0.1% (which it isnt, its much greater; usually i have seen 1%, but transphobia, lack of information, misinformation, confusion, fear of change etc. influence the number a lot), this would just mean being trans doesnt impact being a shooter or not and people who say otherwise are spreading lies about transgender people and incite fear and hatred, either from being misinformed or from the want to spread disinformation to achieve a goal

    Edit: while writing this, 3 other people also commented

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