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Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.
Broader databases, which count school shootings by more consistent criteria, show dozens of incidents each year and make clear that Heritage’s figures rest on a frame built to exaggerate, not measure; to reflect a narrative, not reality. Jonathan Lewis, a researcher at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, tells WIRED: “There is no academic publication I am aware of which has found any causal relationship between an individual’s gender identity and their radicalization or mobilization, nor which establishes any basis for such an argument.” The Heritage Foundation, whose Project 2025 policy recommendations have been widely adopted by the Trump administration, is urging the FBI to create the “TIVE” terrorism designation amid increasingly fervent anti-trans propaganda from right-wing groups.
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