'Texas Congressman Says Trans People Need To Be Taken 'Off The Streets' After Charlie Kirk Shooting' [View all]

(TPM) "The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a crackdown on the left from President Trump and his allies. In an appearance on the cable network Newsmax on Tuesday evening, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) took things further — way further."

"After latching on to the fact the man being charged with the shooting allegedly had a transgender romantic partner, Jackson called gender non-conforming people a 'virus' as he argued they need to be placed in institutions and barred from the internet."

“ 'We have to do something about this,' Jackson said after railing against doctors who aid with gender transition. 'We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets and we have to get them off the internet. We can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country that’s going to do great damage to normal, hard working, law abiding people.' "

"Jackson’s comments came during an episode of the show 'Finnerty' where Kirk’s killing was characterized as 'trans violence.' The idea that trans people are linked to mass shootings has been a recent fixation on the right after a couple of cases with perpetrators that were reportedly transgender. Those incidents accounted for a very small number of the overall phenomenon. In a 2023 fact check, Reuters highlighted an analysis that found trans suspects were involved in 0.11% of mass shootings recorded over the past decade, a figure far lower than the proportion of trans people in the total U.S. population. Efforts to tie transgender people to violence have coincided with a wave of anti-trans policy and rhetoric from Trump and other Republicans."

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Only 0.11% of mass shootings over the past decade involved trans suspects, while 100% of these mass shootings involved guns. Guns are the virus we have to get off the streets, Ronnie.