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The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.
“We're looking at the entire spider web for any of these attacks,” FBI director Kash Patel told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when asked about shootings by trans individuals.
“They,” Attorney General Pam Bondi
said after the Kirk murder, are “putting this crazy ideology in our schools,” echoing the growing view of many in Trump’s inner circle that a “cult of gender ideology” is behind an explosion of violence by some as yet unidentified “radical left.”
Two days before Kirk was killed, Donald Trump
condemned “transgender insanity.” Then in an
interview about the shooting, he blamed “the radicals on the left,” saying: “they want transgender for everyone.”
“They are cynically targeting trans people because the shooter’s lover was trans,” one senior intelligence official tells me. “The administration has convinced itself that the Charlie Kirk murder exposes some dark conspiracy.”
The senior official explains that there is no process per se for dealing with trans people as a “threat group,” but feels that trans individuals will be increasingly targeted under the banner of “violent extremism.”
Under the plan being discussed, the FBI would treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureau’s new threat category, “
Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs).
The Trump administration first created the NVE designation earlier this year to replace the Biden-era label “Anti-Authority and Anti-Government Violent Extremists” (AGAAVE),
created to categorize January 6 rioters and other right-wing groups.
The new classification, sources say, gives Trump officials political (and media) cover. Rather than directly naming transgender people as some enemy, the White House has preferred euphemisms like “gender ideology extremism.”
On his first day in office, Trump signed an
executive order establishing federal policy as defining sex as an "immutable biological reality" of male and female. He also signed an order to keep transgender individuals out of women's sports. This order directed federal agencies to enforce laws based on the definition and to cease funding for anything that "promote
gender ideology."
