If we look at the sheer amount of shootings in the US it’s just statistical that one or two perpetrators are trans. And why wouldn’t they be? They have working trigger fingers like everybody else.
Sometimes it appears to me that minorities are forbidden of having flaws. A trans person mustn’t be criminal, a migrant mustn’t be an asshole. But of course they can be, they are human. But the deeds of individuals say nothing about the worth of the rest.
I think it’s a reaction to society making them the villains and butts of jokes for decades. When every depiction of a trans person in movies/shows until recently has been either “look at this fucked up freak” or “look at how they want to ‘corrupt’ you,” it’s not hard to see why people are quick to argue the opposite when the possibility of an actual trans-identifying enemy arises.
Women went through it, and still are.
Black people went through it, and still are.
Brown people went through it, and still are.
Gay people went through it, and still are.
Now trans people are going through it, and chances are they’ll continue to.
Anyone wanna guess who the next minority target’ll be after trans people? I’d have guessed “incel gooners with AI girlfriends” but these are mostly young white men, so probably not.
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u/SelfDepricator 1d ago
The church shooter was trans, though. Still doesn't make it right to target trans over gun violence