A gunman opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27, 2025, killing two children and injuring 17 people. Early reports suggested the shooter may have identified as transgender, and that claim spread quickly across far-right networks. MAGA influencers and commentators circulated the reported gender identity as evidence of a supposed pattern, while public figures amplified the claim on social platforms. Civil rights and LGBTQ researchers condemned the scapegoating, noting shooters are more commonly non-transgender white males. Local officials decried attempts to use the tragedy to demonize the transgender community.
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people,
The fact of the matter is a shooter is more likely to be a non-transgender white male rather than a transgender person,
There is a clear pattern here.
as an opportunity to villainize our trans community.
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