National Review online
Friday, February 27, 2026
In 2023, Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old female who identified
as male, shot and killed three children and three adults at the Covenant School
in Nashville before being killed by police. A 2019 shooting at a Denver STEM
school involved a transgender-identifying individual. The would-be assassin of
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as transgender.
On February 10, Jesse Van Rootselaar, 19, killed a parent
and half-brother before going to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British
Columbia, Canada, killing eight more people, injuring 27 others, and committing
suicide. On February 16, Robert Dorgan, 56, who underwent gender-reassignment
surgery in 2020, opened fire on family members, killing an ex-wife, an adult
son, and a third victim before committing suicide. Now authorities are
investigating links between a trans-identifying person who shot at a New
Hampshire Border Patrol agent over the weekend and an attack last year on
Border Patrol agents in Vermont; the latest incident may also be part of a
campaign of violence from the so-called “Zizian cult,” several members of which
identify as “transgender” and are currently on trial for violent crime. Despite
efforts to hush up discussion about this topic, some crime researchers have
found that trans-identifying individuals are responsible for active shootings
at a rate twelve times their share of the larger population.
This phenomenon of trans violence should no longer be
cabined from polite discussion by the pretense that discussing the sociological
facts puts trans-identifying people in danger. Similarly, we must bury the
unstated assumption of liberal media that trans-identifying individuals are
members of a victim group, and so all transgressions committed by them should
be seen as morally understandable, perhaps non-culpable reactions to
oppression. Investigators must be able to do their work without fear of political
censorship.
The phenomenon of trans violence requires careful study
in order to disentangle causes from correlations. Transgender identification
itself may be correlated strongly, in males, with acutely depressive and
violent tendencies. It may also be that violent people are especially
vulnerable to modern society’s reigning egregores, the collective insanities
that travel around, licensing aberrant behavior. It may simply be that
transgenderism is overdiagnosed in order to deal with a cluster of other mental
problems that then go under-addressed, only to fester while the patient tries
to fix everything by changing genders.
It also may be that violence is planted deep in
transgender ideology itself. The ideology makes a promise it cannot keep, that
people can become something other than what they were created to be. It tries
to make good on this promise through drugs and surgeries, which can render the
patients infertile and incontinent, and condemn them to a lifetime of further
surgeries to prevent deadly infection. Most sinister of all, advocates of
transgender ideology tend to justify and valorize suicide. Teens are taught by
ideologues to coerce unwilling parents and guardians into accepting
transgenderism with the threat of suicide. Or worse, those who do commit
suicide are venerated as heroic martyrs to intolerance, allowing the inwardly
depressed to use self-murder to afflict their imagined enemies and be honored
in death. It became a cliché of the gender-ideology movement to spread the
inflammatory claim that anyone questioning its metaphysics or consequences
“wants trans kids dead.”
Whatever the case, we won’t learn more if the topic of
trans violence remains taboo.
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