"Earlier this month, The Heritage Foundation, a hard-line conservative think tank behind the right-wing presidential blueprint Project 2025, petitioned the FBI to add what it called transgender ideology-inspired violent extremism to its list of domestic threats in the US. The organisation blamed "transgender ideology" for the death of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk, despite the man charged with the shooting not publicly identifying as trans."
"The organisations claimed that "50 per cent of all major (non-gang-related) school shootings since 2015 have involved or likely involved transgender ideology". However, the claim was debunked little more than a week later by Wired magazine journalists Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts, who said the figure of 50 per cent was "not just unsupported, it appears misleading by design, arbitrary in scope and unscientific at its core"."
The Heritage Foundation petitioned the FBI to add transgender ideology-inspired violent extremism to the US domestic threats list. The organisation blamed "transgender ideology" for the death of Charlie Kirk despite the man charged with the shooting not publicly identifying as trans. The petition, launched with the Oversight Project, defined "TIVE extremism" as a belief rejecting fundamental science about biological sex being determined before birth, binary and immutable. The organisations claimed 50 per cent of major non-gang school shootings since 2015 involved transgender ideology. Wired journalists Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts debunked the 50 per cent figure as misleading, arbitrary, and unscientific. The Heritage Foundation cited an X/Twitter post by vice-president Roger Severino that listed eight shootings and claimed four involved a trans-identifying shooter or likely trans-ideology-related motivation.
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