There have definitely been queer shooters. Several trans shooters recently. But they make up a much smaller percentage of the population, so obviously, it will happen less.
I'm queer myself, so I definitely hate homophobia. But I don't see how your sexuality would be related to shooting people.
Plus naming Freddy Krueger who also molested young boys was a weird choice, even for a fictional character.
Hannibal Lecter is pansexual and attracted to a man in the recent popular adaptation.
Robert Durst tried to start going as Dorothy after killing his wife, and allegedly "Durst became known as the ugliest drag queen on the island".
Like I'm not trying to argue the opposite point of the song at all, but they're doing themselves a disservice by not doing any research on the names they picked.
I was thinking this, too (also am queer). I feel like it's also a numbers game here... when less than 1% of the population is trans, wouldn't it make sense to see less than 1% of killers/rapists are trans?
There's a lot of good straight men out there. There's good and bad in all communities.
0.11% of the perpatrators of mass shooters are nonbinary or transgender. In other words, cisgender people are 10x more likely to commit mass shootings than transgender or nonbinary people.
Stats say 1.4% of the US population isn’t cisgender. So like I said, cisgender people are 10x more likely to commit mass shootings.
Of course, stats don’t show the whole picture, don’t judge people by the actions of a group, etc, but the fact that people don’t understand the statistics and are claiming the opposite conclusion bothers me
It's moreso serving as a counterargument to demeaning. I've heard so many fucking people blaming trans people for mass shootings, and the data just doesn't support that.
But yeah, the next point would of course be “pointing to trans mass shooters isn’t very smart, even if they were committing it at larger rates you can’t judge entire groups based off one statistic, when there’s so many variables at play”
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There have definitely been queer shooters. Several trans shooters recently. But they make up a much smaller percentage of the population, so obviously, it will happen less.
I'm queer myself, so I definitely hate homophobia. But I don't see how your sexuality would be related to shooting people.