Opinion | Far-right internet trolls keep falsely claiming mass shooters are trans people

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Once again, far-right antagonists are heaping dangerous and false anti-trans rumors on top of a mass-shooting tragedy, writes Katelyn Burns

that involved speaking with San Bernardino police and the coroner’s office, and obtaining the shooter’s immigration documents, I could conclude that she was not transgender at all.

And now the Uvalde school shooting can be added to a — growing, if we are to be realistic — list of gun atrocities falsely attributed to a trans person. This keeps happening over and over again because of the larger project of monstering trans people, particularly trans women, that much of the far right and its gender-critical allies have engaged in for the past several years.

You don’t get to this place where trans people are consistently falsely slandered and denied legal and emotional support through civilized or informed debate., who have engaged in an extended effort to villainize trans women and turn them into socially unacceptable beings. Part of this project involves highlighting individual bad actors who happen to be trans.

The rhetoric has only increased over the past several years. In 2018, gender-critical feminist Sheila Jeffreys told a U.K. Parliament panel that trans women were “parasites.” As the outrageous claims built, some American conservative politicians decided to take action. In Texas, where this week’s shooting occurred, Gov. Gregg Abbott and his attorney general Ken Paxton have sought to essentially make it illegal to be a trans kid or teenager.

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