FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group

[Lori Dee]

FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says
The choice is being championed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025.
Link to Full Article 🔗 [Link: them.us/story/trump-​admin-​fbi-​trans-​nihilistic-​violent-​extremists-​terrorist/]
Them - Abby Monteil
September 19, 2025

According to a September 18 report by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, two anonymous national security officials said that the Bureau is discussing treating trans subjects as a subset of its new threat category, "Nihilistic Violent Extremists" (NVEs), which was created earlier this year. The Bureau defines "Nihilistic Violent Extremism" as "criminal conduct... in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos."

Officials said that such a classification would give the Trump administration "political (and media) cover" as they escalate their anti-trans campaign in the aftermath of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk's death.

 In a petition launched on Thursday, the Heritage Foundation and its spin-off group, the Oversight Project, asked the FBI to designate "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism" (TIVE) as a domestic terrorism threat category.

... if such a category is adopted by the FBI, it could be applied to rhetoric used by activists, writers, and allies speaking out against anti-trans policies and rhetoric.

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This is obviously being promoted by people who do not know any transgender people.
Interestingly, the reasoning could equally apply to the MAGA ideology.

I wonder how much longer the American people will tolerate this insanity.

[Lori Dee]

LGBT+ activists sound alarm over Trump admin's 'trans mass shooters' narrative and reveal "DIE F****' bullets found
Civil rights leaders warned that the White House's 'demonizing' rhetoric is laying the groundwork for 'abuse and mass surveillance' of the whole trans community
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-transgender-mass-shooters-terrorism-b2833160.html 🔗
The Independent - Io Dodds
Thursday 25 September 2025 00:55 BST

The Trump administration's "demonization" of transgender people as mass shooters is inciting anti-trans violence and appears calculated to justify crackdowns on the whole community, civil rights activists have warned.

In an "emergency" briefing on Wednesday, a group of pro-LGBT+ groups, including the Human Rights Campaign and the Southern Policy Law Center, said they were "sounding the alarm" about reports that Trump might "weaponize" the FBI against trans people...

GLAAD chief Sarah Kate Ellis also revealed that her group had logged an "uptick" in anti-trans harassment and violence, including death threats, physical assaults, and bullets left outside a Missouri LGBT+ center engraved with the words "DIE F***S".

"Violence committed against trans Americans is an epidemic. Undue violence committed by trans Americans is a lie — a lie that only begets more violence," said HRC president Kelley Robinson.

"We need every elected official to also sound the alarm with us... to speak out against this President's violent actions, to confront the lies that put trans Americans in danger."

"[Journalists] should be questioning the facts pushed out by this government," said GLAAD's Sarah Kate Ellis.

"The truth is, the real trans terrorism is the terror experienced by trans people in this country."

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[Lori Dee]

Erin In The Morning has done a deep dive into this story:

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-push-fbi-to-designate 🔗
Erin In The Morning - Erin Reed
Sep 19, 2025

On Thursday evening, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported that the FBI is developing tools to identify transgender suspects and classify them as "nihilistic violent extremists." Within hours, the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation—the same outfit driving Project 2025's blueprint now being implemented inside the federal government—released a four-page memo urging the bureau to go even further. Its proposal: formally designate all transgender activism as "Trans Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism," a new category of domestic terror threat. It's important to note that the Heritage Foundation is not itself the federal government, and to our knowledge, its proposals are not yet in place. But the group's influence is vast, especially in the wake of a Trump administration openly committed to implementing Project 2025. That makes its latest push far more than just a think-tank memo—it's a roadmap for policy. Here's what you need to know about the proposal.

... the definition... also includes anyone who argues that stripping away transgender rights constitutes violence or an existential threat to transgender people. That second prong is sweeping: by its logic, nearly every transgender rights activist or organization—merely for pointing out the tangible harm that comes from losing rights—would fall under the label of extremist.

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From what we have seen from this Administration, if they say they are "thinking about" something, they are already doing it.

They were "thinking about" sending the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to quell "violent" protests.

They were "thinking about" sending the National Guard into Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and Boston, and ... and ...

and ... now this.