🧩 BND Motif Index · M1393
Trans violence is real
Trans people are said to be behind a disproportionate share of riots, shootings and attacks, with arrest records and booking photos offered as proof of a violent movement.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Sex and gender🗂️ Political violence
- 2claims filed under it
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Predator in the bathroom
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 3 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “that movement has mutated into... killing people and maiming people” “Trans people commit the most sex crimes per capita / about 40% have mental health issues and can be quite violent and abusive” “Trans Violence is Real” “up to 20% of the arrestees on certain nights were trans identifying in some way”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-01 “A pattern exists where suspects involved in riots and violence are disproportionately transgender.” 3
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-07 “Trans people are dangerous and violent and commit more sex crimes than others, a threat to women and children.”
M1393 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-10-07 · what this is · how the index works