Overview
- The Oversight Project released a brief urging the FBI to create a Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism category to cover attacks it links to transgender ideology.
- The proposal says a TIVE designation would enable added resources, undercover operations, and expanded database searches to deter future attacks.
- President Donald Trump told The Daily Wire the administration is "very strongly" looking at transgender-related violence; the Heritage Foundation separately called for the FBI to treat "violent transgender ideology" as a domestic terror threat.
- Civil-rights and LGBT+ groups held an emergency briefing warning the push could demonize transgender people, citing what GLAAD describes as a recent uptick in threats and assaults, including bullets left at a Missouri LGBT+ center with a homophobic slur.
- Some claimed evidence has been disputed, including a law-enforcement bulletin that falsely said bullets at Charlie Kirk’s killing bore pro-trans messages, and The Daily Wire reports unconfirmed DOJ discussions about a possible gun ban for transgender-identifying people.