Lies, Lise, And More Lies

We all probably have heard of the trans people involved in the Minneapolis Catholic school...

Robin Westman is Latest Transgender Mass Shooter to Spark National Debate

Newsweek

By Khaleda Rahman

Aug 28, 2025

Well first off, there is no national debate! There are only right-wings lies!

The suspect in the mass shooting at a Catholic Church and school in Minneapolis has become the latest U.S. mass shooter to spark a debate because they are apparently transgender, but experts say such perpetrators are "extremely" rare.

It's not clear how Robin Westman, 23, identified recently. But court records reviewed by Newsweek show Westman was granted a name change from Robert to Robin in 2020. A judge approved the petition signed by Westman's mother that said the "minor child identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification."

That prompted some conservatives to allege a "pattern" when it comes to transgender individuals and violence, with some arguing that they should not have access to guns.

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"Mass shootings by transgender people continue to be extremely rare," Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government told Newsweek on Thursday. "To my knowledge, this is the first perpetrator since Nashville who identified as transgender."

What pattern? What I see as a pattern is the lies coming out of the Republicans!

No, there is not an 'epidemic' of shootings by trans people

By Will Carless

USA TODAY

August 29. 2025

In the immediate aftermath of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting on Aug. 27, a familiar narrative appeared on social media: The suspect, some high-profile accounts began positing, was transgender. 

This happens almost every time there is a school shooting in America. Commentators and politicians with huge social media followings peddle conspiracy theories that the attacker is trans, and that claim is quickly debunked.

This time, however, the claim was correct. The shooter who killed two children and injured 18 more, was, indeed, transgender. Cue the outrage. Right-wing commentators, congresspeople and influencers seized on a now-2-year old narrative that America is witnessing an "epidemic" of violence from the trans community.

That is not true.

The epidemic are the right-wings lies! Charlotte's Web Thoughts wrote that...

Since 2015, GVA has recorded 5,203 mass shootings, including 286 this year.

According to data provided by GVA to Reuters in 2023—whose analysis was as broad as possible despite questions over the true gender identity of perpetrators—there were no more than—at most—four shooters identified as trans at that time in their records.

Today’s horrific tragedy would make that five.

That would mean trans perpetrators, at most, are responsible for 0.096 percent of mass shootings in the United States since 2015. According to data released by the Williams Institute at UCLA this month, about one percent of the total population of those residing in the U.S. who are aged 13 and older are transgender.

That would mean any given mass shooting is literally 1000x more likely to have been perpetrated by a non-trans person than by a trans person since 2015. You were a thousand times more likely to have been killed in a mass shooting by a person who is not transgender over the past ten years.

But that doesn't fit the Republican rhetoric of lies to demonize us! That doesn't fit with their campaign of fear against our community!