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What are Sanae Takaichi views on transgender people?

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Sunshine (she/her) @piefed.ca 2d ago

Nah. I don’t like Japan denying their war crimes like the Nanjing Massacre.

I’m not very aware of what politics looks like over there.

Transgender people do not disproportionately commit mass shootings, and in fact represent one per cent or less of all shootings, according to two U.S. databases. Statistics Canada does not track the gender identity of people accused or charged in gun-related crime, but there is no indication any of Canada’s previous mass shooters identified as transgender or non-binary.

A mass shooting that devastated the small British Columbia community of Tumbler Ridge sparked a false online narrative about an “epidemic” of transgender mass shooters and their supposed overrepresentation as perpetrators of violent crime.

B.C. RCMP said the shooter, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, was assigned male at birth but began transitioning about six years ago and identified as female “both socially and publicly.”

Of the 201 mass shooters in the database, its single transgender perpetrator represents half a per cent of all shootings.

“The reality is, seven out of 4000 (mass shootings) is a very small number,” Bryant said, adding that transgender people accounted for no more than one per cent of mass shootings in the last decade, according to the database.

According to Statistics Canada, transgender and non-binary people over the age of 15 represent 0.33 per cent of the population. In the U.S. they represent about one per cent of the population.

Data shows the majority of mass shooters are overwhelmingly are cisgender men.

Aaron Devor, a sociology professor and chair in transgender studies at the University of Victoria, said transgender people are more likely to be the victims of murder and other crimes than the perpetrators.

“Anything that we do have data on shows that transgender people are a very very tiny minority among those who commit crimes, and they’re a very tiny tiny minority in society in general,” he said.

Devor added there is no indication any of Canada’s previous mass shooters identified as transgender or non-binary.

“To paint the very small population of transgender people in Canada with one brush based on what one very, very troubled person did is unfair,” Devor said. “I actually believe that most Canadians do not fall for the rhetoric that we’re hearing that tries to blame mass shootings in general on transgender people. I think most Canadians are allies of transgender people and are bright enough to see the fallacy in those claims.”