POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNINGFew Mass Shooters Have Been TransgenderLink to Full ArticleFactCheck.org - Ashley Wang
September 17, 2025
Q: Have many of the mass shooters been transgender?
A: The number of transgender mass shooters in the U.S. varies depending on how "mass shooting" is defined, but is relatively small.
The Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that tracks gun-related violence in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which there are "a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident." Under this standard, there were 5,748 mass shootings between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept. 15, 2025, according to the GVA. "OF THAT NUMBER OF INCIDENTS, there have been FIVE CONFIRMED Transgender shooters," Mark Bryant, the GVA's founding executive director.
The Violence Prevention Project at Hamline University defines a mass shooting as "four or more people shot and killed, excluding the shooter, in a public location, with no connection to underlying criminal activity, such as gangs or drugs." By that more restrictive measure, the project's mass shooter database identifies 201 mass shooters between 1966 and 2024, and only one of them – Audrey Hale, the 2023 Nashville school shooting suspect – was transgender, James Densley, the project's co-founder and deputy director.----------------------
5 out of 5,748 since 21013. 5/5748 = 0.00086986778 = 0.087%
1 out of 201 from 1966-2024. 1/201 = 0.00497512438 = 0.4975%
Statistics show that mass shooters are most commonly white cisgender males.
