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A timeline of false “gender ideology” claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting

Posted by DefinitelyNotAFae
Tags: transgender, usa, politics.usa, gender, transphobia, republican party, donald trump, crime, shootings, charlie kirk, ideology, author.henry carnell, author.schuyler mitchell, author.madison pauly, source.motherjones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-shooter-trans-ideology-false/

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Title
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
Authors
Henry Carnell, Schuyler Mitchell, Madison Pauly, Ian Gordon, Julia Métraux, Sam Van Pykeren, Anna Merlan, Abby Vesoulis, Maria Gallucci, David Corn, Damian Carrington, Hannah Psalma Ramirez, Kiera Butler, Julianne McShane, Isabela Dias, Pema Levy
Published
Sep 17 2025
Word count
1307 words

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  1. DefinitelyNotAFae
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    So, I hate posting downers here but I felt like this can be helpful to understand for ourselves and to debunk the lies that have already been spread by some of the worst anti-trans people out...

    So, I hate posting downers here but I felt like this can be helpful to understand for ourselves and to debunk the lies that have already been spread by some of the worst anti-trans people out there.

    Laurie Marhoefer, a professor of LGBTQ history and Nazi Germany at the University of Washington, says his transgender friends reacted with alarm as soon as news broke of the shooting. But the panic increased when the false statements about the shell casings came out. Friends began to check in with him, asking how worried they should be about retaliation.

    “People are just terrified,” Marhoefer says. “I think we’re getting used to being terrified.”

    Be safe

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