May trans people continue being underrepresented among murderers contrary to reactionary talking points.
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That's over 10 per week
What the actual fuck USA?
smh
Horrible.
EDIT: I did a search. The number of mass shootings (4+ shot, not killed) between 2018 and 2023 was 3000-3500! Major mass shootings (8+ shot) was ~12/year, 55-60 events. <this_is_fine.jpg>
Trans people 1% of the population but only 0.1% of murderers? Well that's the last time I feel safe in the same room as a cis person! /j
This could be misleading without having percentage based numbers. If there were 3 trans people in total, then having 3 shooters is much worse than the cis numbers.
unless trans people are significantly greater than 0.1% of the population then this chart isn’t a flex
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.
@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.
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
I gotta look this up, not at home rn, but i think about 1% of people are trans. I'll update this if i can't confirm that
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