This is where being extremely clear on terms matters.
The data itself can be framed two different ways (depending on which narrative one wants to promote)
Obviously, there's the "overall" framing
Which looks at the total number of shootings, and determines what percentage involved someone who was Trans.
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Then there's the "number of shootings committed by a group, relative to their share of the population size" (and omitting gang violence and armed robbery situations)
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And the statistics can be watered down even further with the inclusion of things like Gang battles and robbery-type events.
For example, the Gun Violence Archive and Everytown for Gun Safety compile “mass shootings” lists that involve gang disputes and, to a lesser extent, other crimes such as robberies. While those incidents are important to study, they differ fundamentally from shootings in which an individual enters a location with the sole goal of murdering and injuring as many soft targets as possible to "make a statement"
Or, in more plain terms, a gang member fighting in a turf war, or a convenience store robbery where people end up getting shot is very different (from a psychological standpoint), than a person who writes an ideological manifesto, and then heads off to a church, mall, or school with a semi-automatic weapon to massacre as many random people as they can.
And in the field of psychiatry, there's a well-established link between suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. Especially in people aged 12-24.
Adolescents with a homicidal tendency is a growing concern in the United States. Studies in the past have showcased the relationship between homicidal ideation (HI) and psychiatric illnesses, but very limited information is available on the ...
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The strongest psychiatric predictors of homicidal ideation were suicidal ideation, personality disorders, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder - with depression and anxiety as weaker but still minor predictors.
...and what do we know about the prevalence of those conditions in the Trans population compared to the general population?
We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses among transgender patients in clinical care using an all-payer electronic health record database. Of 10,270 transgender patients identified, 58% (n=5940) had at least ...
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So the concerns in this regard can't be purely dismissed as "religious objection about sex stuff", and trying to draw a comparison to the Gay/Lesbian/Bi community (as to suggest that concerns about this are just a more recent iteration of
conservative oppression) don't hold up either, as those groups don't experience a 12-fold increase in things like severe personality disorder or schizophrenia.
