Another school shooting...more children dead.

[Belsnickel]

So, the gender identity of the shooter is an important thing, but not for some of the fear mongering reasons we are seeing in right wing media and on this board. It has been brought up that most of these shooters are men. One of the areas of study around trans individuals is the way their brain functions and whether they have more in common with their biological sex or with their gender identity. It's an interesting research area and something like this could play a role in that discussion.

One of the other reasons this could be an issue goes down to motive. The likelihood that this was a hate crime against Christians is damn near zero. What has a high potential, though, given the mental health situation that seems to have some support to it, is that there may have been some sort of perceived trauma from this individual's time at the school related to their gender identity. Of course, any discussion of motive is purely speculative at this point and we should ensure that we keep that in mind. Not enough information has been made public regarding the motive in order for us to have a good understanding.