Is Transgender Ideology Evil?

 Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a young man who hated him because he spoke against transgender ideology. Charlie was killed because he was a true disciple of Jesus Christ. With his assassination, Charlie joined a growing number of individuals who were killed for their Christian beliefs by other people connected in some way to transgender ideology.

According to Tyler O’Neil at The Daily Signal, “An increasing number of alleged murderers, mass shooters, and violent offenders have apparently tried to silence Christians or critics of transgender ideology.” They assume that their critics “represent a violent threat.” The assassination of Charlie Kirk “underscores this unnerving trend” and supports the FBI’s formal characterization of the threat of “transgender ideology violent extremism.” 

The Oversight Project and The Heritage Foundation formally called on the FBI [on September 18, 2025] to use its authority under 18 U.S. Code § 2331 to designate this threat, and I whole heartedly agree. The FBI declined to comment on the subject when approached [the next day].

That statute defines domestic terrorism as activities on U.S. soil that “involve acts dangerous to human life” that violate federal or state criminal laws that “appear to be intended” to intimidate or coerce civilians, influence government policy, or affect government conduct via mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.

Current domestic violent extremism categories include: racially/ethnically motivated violent extremism; anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism; animal rights/environmental violent extremism.

The Oversight Project and Heritage recommend categorizing transgender ideology violent extremism as typically targeting “Christian and religious groups;” featuring “mental illness, self-harm, suicidal tendencies, and lack of respect for genetic human realities, amplified by online radicalization;” and boosted by “echo chambers that promote violence against critics.”

Most people who identify as transgender likely do not pose a threat to their fellow Americans, but a growing list of attackers either identified as transgender or appear to be motivated by transgender ideology.

O’Neil shared the following list of people killed or threatened by transgender-motivated violence.

·         Charlie Kirk, allegedly shot on September 10, 2025, by a young man who was living with a boyfriend who identifies as transgender.

·         Two children killed and 17 others injured at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis in August 2025 by a young man who identified as a young woman.

·         Three children and three adults were shot and killed on March 27, 2023, at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, by a young woman who identified as male.

·         Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was threatened by assassination in June 2022 by a man who identifies as a woman.

·         One person was killed and eight were injured on May 7, 2019, when a young woman who identifies as male and her friend started shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

·         Four people were shot and killed at a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland, by a perpetrator who identified as transgender.

·         People across state lines were threatened by a man who identifies as a woman and who threatened to rape girls in girls’ restrooms, carry out a mass shooting, and bomb churches.

O’Neil wrote, “Many of these offenders targeted Christians or threatened them because of their faith. The transgender movement encourages a victimization narrative that may play a role in radicalizing these people.”

The Human Rights Campaign, the premier transgender activist group, has described the deaths of people identifying as transgender as an “epidemic.” However, Brad Palumbo at Quillette crunched the numbers and concluded that the “Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest trans Americans suffer a homicide risk that’s actually less than the U.S. average.” …

The FBI should designate Transgender Ideology Violent Extremism and try to prevent further attacks. The transgender movement also needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror and start cooling down the doomsday rhetoric.

Most Christians who disagree with transgender identity do so not because they hate anyone, but because they follow the Bible and basic biology, which show that human beings are male and female and cannot change their sex merely by saying so.