"In the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing, the Republican policy apparatus went immediately to work. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, and its spinoff, the Oversight Project, issued a call for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to designate "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism," or "TIVE," as a domestic terrorism threat category. The push comes as President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that seeks to mobilize federal law enforcement against vaguely defined domestic terror networks."
"The Heritage Foundation and Oversight Project document, which defines "transgender ideology" as "a belief that wholly or partially rejects fundamental science about human sex being biologically determined before birth, binary, and immutable," grounds its policy recommendations in a startling claim: "Experts estimate that 50% of all major (non-gang related) school shootings since 2015 have involved or likely involved transgender ideology.""
"When WIRED asked for the data behind this claim, the Oversight Project did not respond; the Heritage Foundation pointed to a tweet from one of its vice presidents, Roger Severino, claiming that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. Severino also lays out what appears to be his entire data set: Eight shootings, four of which, he claims, involve "a trans-identifying shooter and/or a likely trans-ideology related motivation.""
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing, Republican policy groups pushed for the FBI to designate 'Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism' (TIVE) as a domestic terrorism category. The Heritage Foundation and Oversight Project define 'transgender ideology' as a belief rejecting that sex is biologically determined, binary, and immutable. They claim experts estimate that 50% of major non-gang school shootings since 2015 involved transgender ideology. Heritage cited a tweet from Vice President Roger Severino attributing four of eight shootings to a trans-identifying shooter or trans-ideology motive. The K-12 School Shooting Database records at least four dozen school-ground shootings since 2015, challenging the eight-incident basis.
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