Overview

• On CNN’s State of the Union, Keilar challenged senior counterterrorism aide Seb Gorka for centering the Minnesota shooter’s transgender identity.
• Keilar cited U.S. Secret Service NTAC data showing that 96% of 172 mass attackers from 2016 to 2020 were non‑trans men.
• She added that CNN counts 32 major school shootings since 2020 with four or more killed, three of which involved transgender shooters.
• Gorka dismissed CNN’s numbers, claimed seven recent cases involved transgender or gender‑confused shooters, and framed the Minnesota incident as ideological terrorism against Christian or Catholic schools.
• Keilar said his examples mirror a list pushed by influencers on X that includes inaccuracies, noting entries without evidence of transgender identity or with male pronouns and anti‑LGBTQ rhetoric.