Trump is ratcheting up attacks on trans people. Out straight allies are needed now.https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/is-ratcheting-up-attacks-on-trans-people-out-straight-allies-are-needed-now/ 🔗Shaley Howard (30 Sep 2025)
The FBI is reportedly preparing to categorize transgender people as a "violent extremist" threat group in the United States—a move tied to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. This classification would hand Donald Trump yet another tool to escalate his administration's ongoing attacks on trans communities and individuals.
But the danger doesn't stop there. What's at stake is not only trans lives, but the safety and freedom of all of us. Now, more than ever, we need our straight, cisgender allies to speak out.
This latest attack on transgender people is not only absurd, it's dangerous. The data is clear: the overwhelming majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by far-right extremists and cisgender men—not transgender people. Between 2018 and 2025, only seven mass shootings were committed by transgender individuals. In that same time, at least 4,147 were committed by cisgender people. Cisgender men were responsible for 98% of those shootings, cisgender women for 2%, and just 1% involved transgender people.
And yet, the Trump administration is considering branding transgender people as "violent extremists." It's not only a lie—it's an intentional distortion. They are weaponizing misinformation, twisting reality to vilify a small, vulnerable community. That is the plan.
