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Heritage Foundation uses false data to smear trans people as school shooters
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Related: The Heritage Foundation wants transgender people and allies designated as terroristsBut Wired magazine has analyzed the report and found it doesn’t align with the facts.
The report from the Heritage Foundation and its spin-off organization, the Oversight Project, defines “transgender ideology” as “a belief that wholly or partially rejects fundamental science about human sex being biologically determined before birth, binary, and immutable.” The foundation has a history of demonizing trans people.
The K-12 School Shooting Database has tracked four dozen school shootings since 2015, and only three shooters have been “credibly identified in public reporting” as trans or undergoing gender-affirming care, the magazine notes.
Related: Mike Johnson, RFK Jr. attack trans people in wake of Minneapolis school shooting“There are no legitimate studies that suggest that a majority of school shootings since 2015 involve transgender people,” Rachel Carroll Rivas and R.G.
Instead of “transgender ideology” being a motivation, “white supremacist, anti-government, and misogynist beliefs account for the lion’s share of ideologically motivated gun violence,” Wired concludes.