"Fox News host Lawrence Jones, during a 17 February segment discussing a 16 February mass shooting at a Rhode Island ice rink, expressed that he thinks transgender people should not be allowed to own guns in the US. Robert Dorgan, 56, killed their son and ex-wife before taking their own life during a hockey game at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket."
""If you're someone that just wants to wear a dress, no problems. If you are someone that just wants to identify as another sex, but you know deep down that you're not - but you just wanna be called 'he' or 'she' - that's one thing. But if you, from a psychological standpoint, think that you are another sex, you should not have a gun.""
"While being transgender is not classified as a mental disorder, trans people usually need to be diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder, in order to access healthcare."
The view that transgender people with gender dysphoria should be barred from gun ownership and required to indicate mental-health status on federal firearms forms was expressed following a Rhode Island ice-rink mass shooting. The shooter, Robert Dorgan (also Roberta), killed their son and ex-wife before suicide; Dorgan had undergone gender-affirming surgery and experienced family issues. Data show up to 98% of mass-shooting perpetrators are cisgender men. Transgender identity is not classified as a mental disorder, though gender-dysphoria diagnoses are often required for access to trans healthcare. The federal firearms form includes a mental-health question; some have called for trans people with gender dysphoria to be required to check it.
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