Brianna Keilar challenged White House counterterrorism director Sebastian Gorka after he claimed transgender people disproportionately commit mass shootings. The exchange followed a Minneapolis massacre where 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was trans, killed two children and wounded at least 17 before dying by suicide, and Mayor Jacob Frey warned against scapegoating the trans community. Keilar cited the U.S. Secret Service Threat Assessment Center review of 172 mass attacks from 2016 to 2020, which found 96 percent of perpetrators were cisgender men. Gorka dismissed the data as "pseudo facts" and pointed to a list he posted on X that included Audrey Hale, Alec McKinney, Snochia Moseley and Dylan Butler, despite no evidence Butler identified as trans.
where 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was trans, opened fire during a back-to-school mass at Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children and wounding at least 17 others before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. While investigators probe Westman's motives for the Wednesday shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warned against scapegoating. "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. Kids died. This needs to be about them," he said.
Still, on national television, Gorka falsely argued there had been "seven" transgender shooters in recent years. Keilar pushed back, citing the U.S. Secret Service Threat Assessment Center's review of 172 mass attacks from 2016 to 2020, which found 96 percent of perpetrators were cisgender men. "Are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic?" she asked.
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