Fact Checker | The data is clear: There is no “clear epidemic” of transgender mass shooters
about 1 in 6 have undergone gender-affirming surgery or other surgical treatment to change their physical appearance.”
So we need to evaluate the incidence of mass shootings using the metric that transgender people are 0.6 percent of the population.and how individuals and groups define the terms can create a huge discrepancy in the statistics used to describe the frequency of these events. The Washington Post defines a mass killing as an event in which four or more people, not including the shooter, have been killed by gunfire.
188 mass public killings since 1966. So with 0.6 percent of the population, transgender people would expect to be involved in about one shooting., professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Metro State University and co-founder of the Violence Project. “We will likely update our gender coding when we code this case after more information has been released and verified.”counted
2,697 mass shootings under a definition of 4 or more shot or killed in a shooting incident, not including the shooter, in any circumstance. This methodology would allow inclusion of the Aberdeen and Denver cases cited by Johnson. With 0.6 percent of the population, one would expect at least 16 mass shootings to be conducted by people identifying as transgender. Instead there are just three possible cases cited by conservatives.
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