Overview

• On Newsmax, Rep. Ronny Jackson called transgender people a “virus” and a “cancer” and said they should be taken off the streets and off the internet, claiming they have psychiatric illnesses.
• Jackson tied his remarks to gender dysphoria and asserted this is why transgender people are barred from military service, echoing Trump-era restrictions and endorsing expanded mental institutions.
• Rep. Nancy Mace separately used slurs, urged institutionalization, and repeated a claim about bullets bearing transgender references that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox later said was untrue.
• Prosecutors charged 22-year-old Tyler Robinson in Charlie Kirk’s killing, noting alleged texts saying “I had enough of his hatred” and a romantic relationship with a person undergoing gender transition; the roommate is not charged and has cooperated, according to reports.
• Major medical bodies, including the American Psychiatric Association and WHO, do not classify being transgender as a mental disorder, and Reuters-cited data show trans suspects account for a tiny fraction of mass shootings.