Newsweek fact-check: Actually, yes, there have been four trans mass shooters in last five years

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“4 shooters out of over 300 mass shooters since 2009 are transgender or non binary. That’s just 1.3 percent of all shooters,” Anthony Zenkus, a lecturer in social work at Columbia University, wrote on Twitter. “You just proved our point: 99 percent of mass shooters in the United States are cis gendered.”

According to the Williams Institute research center, around 0.6 percent of Americans over the age of 13 identify as transgender.

Three of these shooters identified as transgender, with one later identifying as non-binary. An exact number of shooters involved in such incidents, and whether there may have been more transgender shooters than those listed, remains unclear.

(via Matt Vespa)

[These four have all been within less than five years. Newsweek has a good synopsis of those cases. Even by Zenkus’ numbers, trans perps are overrepresented in the universe of mass shooters since 2009 (an odd starting point), and much more so if we start counting 2018 in the first known instance. — Ed]

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