Transgender individuals commit more “mass public and active shooting attacks,” a study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) revealed. Drawing upon data from 2018 to 2024, the study found that those identifying as transgender “commit these attacks at disproportionately high rates.”
Detailing statistical mistakes of other studies, CPRC found that many reports look “only at the share of attacks committed by transgender individuals and fail to adjust for transgender individuals’ share of the population.” For example, if a group represents only 1% of the population but commits 10% of attacks, “no one would dismiss that disparity simply because the group accounts for ‘only’ 10 percent of active shooting attacks,” CPRC wrote.
According to the report, the share of transgender individuals in mass public shootings between 2018 to 2025 is “6.2 times their share of the population.”
“Again, most of the discussions about transgender individuals dismiss it as a serious concern because they only examine their attacks as a share of total attacks and don’t adjust for transgenders’ share of the population,” CPRC adds. “But once one realizes that is the only way to properly analyze the data, regardless of how one measures it—whether using only FBI data or the expanded dataset—active shooting attacks committed by transgender individuals are becoming a serious problem.”
A report from Fox News lists notable incidents of trans shooters, such as a 2018 shooting in Maryland, a 2019 shooting in Colorado, followed by another Colorado shooting in 2022. In 2023, a transgender individual carried out a shooting in Nashville, killing three children, while two other children were killed in a 2025 shooting in Minnesota.
Two shootings by transgender-identifying people have already occurred in 2026, one in British Columbia, and another in Rhode Island.
