2024 Tranime Shooter in Iowa - Authorities confirmed an investigation into a possible active shooter at Perry High School in Iowa.

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If it’s true that school shooter in Iowa today was trans, there’s going to be heated discussion in the days ahead about the relationship between trans identity, mental illness, and violence.

I urge those who participate in this discussion to do so carefully and thoughtfully.

Setting aside whether trans ID / gender dysphoria is itself a mental illness, there is ample evidence that people who identify as trans and/or have a GD diagnosis have very high rates of mental health/neurocognitive problems and personality disorders, including externalizing symptoms that can result in violence.

The question is how to understand the relationship between trans ID and these psychiatric problems.

One theory is minority stress: trans people are stigmatized and misunderstood, resulting in psych issues.

Another theory is that trans ID is, at least for some, a maladaptive coping mechanism for psych issues.

It’s no secret that I find the minority stress theory unpersuasive. But we need to be careful about attributing acts of violence to “being trans.” A better explanation is that, at least for some, trans ID and violent actions both arise from unmanaged mental health issues. It’s a subtle but important distinction.


In addition to questions about trans, mental illness, and violence, which are -- as Leor points out -- delicate and tricky to unpick, there are serious concerns about trans as a *subculture* and violence.

Online trans spaces are soaked in violent imagery and rhetoric. This glorification of violence is justified by wildly exaggerated stories about trans persecution, mostly notably the wholly invented claim that we're currently living through a "trans genocide."

I've written about this before, including for @UnHerd: "The truth is that the subculture that has grown up around trans identities too often excuses, legitimises, and even glorifies violence..."

"That includes violence directed at the self — where self-harm and suicide demonstrate sincerity and commitment to trans identity in the face of adversity — and violence directed outward at perceived enemies."

"This goes hand-in-hand with a toxic dynamic called phobia indoctrination: the attempt to instill irrational fears in members of a high-control group in order to manipulate them."

Supposedly responsible 'grownups' and advocacy orgs traffic in phobia indoctrination, too. Rather than reassuring kids that "it gets better" when others don't accept your identity or you have to wait to 18 to transition, far too many adults favor apocalyptic & militant rhetoric.

What's happening here isn't trans genocide: it's trans radicalization. The warning signs are everywhere: grimacing skulls that promise “DEATH BEFORE DETRANSITION,” baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire, torrents of rape and death threats, calls to stomp/mace/kill terfs...

Kids in trans spaces are indoctrinated into irrational fears. For some, these irrational fears isolate them and make them afraid of the outside world.

For others, phobia indoctrination inspires dreams of vengeance.

Research into violent radicalization among Quebec college students found that transgender and gender-diverse youth were at the *highest risk of support for violent radicalization.*

Given the state of the trans subculture, this shouldn't surprise anybody.

Communities that mythologize martyrs recruit martyrs. Communities that glorify vengeance and violence inspire it.

You also get migration between violent subcultures, like the weirdly well-traveled neo-Nazi-to-trans-activist pipeline. Forget 'genderfluid.' Think 'extremism-fluid.'

No sane, responsible community looks or acts like this. We don't know enough yet to say anything useful about what happened today in Iowa. But we know plenty to say that the trans community as a whole has serious radicalization problems.

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It's typical incel behaviour, really. Look at the types of guys who idolize the Joker (always the dark edgy versions, never the fun versions), Patrick Bateman, Tyler Durden, and so forth. They're all sociopathic, porn-addicted incels who believe, while in mommy's basement, that they're victims of societal oppression. They want that narrative to be reinforced, even though what's holding them back from their goals -- whether it be academic goals, career goals, or romantic goals -- is their own entitlement, bad attitudes, and unrealistic standards. They want quick, easy money (which is why so many fall for crypto and dropshipping scams) and cry when they have to work for a steady living like everyone else. They get mad when they can't find a woman who has no mature interests and is also willing to bring home a salary, cook, clean, look good, and have porny sex at the drop of a hat. Of course, these types of males tend not to do well in academic settings because having to put in lots of hard, slow, and unglorious work runs counterintuitive to their worldview. They turn to these characters because they wish they could take their toddler rage at not being special out on society and have this rage be justified and glamourized. This guy probably felt that way because the porn was teaching him unhealthy messages about sex and women and frying his dopamine receptors.
Incels going troon also allow them to recast their failures and misery as someone else's This transforms his guilt and shame into much more manageable anger, which further fuels a sense of moral grandiosity.

There's a serious streak of glamorizing and celebrating victimhood in society, and it does not lead to anywhere good.
 
Therapy is bullshit, you pay them to say what they expect that you want to hear. Look at Spoony, Pushinguproses, and probably anyone you know (or yourself) and they'll just go along and never challenge you. Online therapy is the new thing, where AI bots pretend to care.

Find a good IRL friend, or relative. That's more productive and can be hard. Paying someone to listen to your problems is insane to me, they do not care. You are no more to them than a client. If you worked in a support job, do you really care that the customer got better off? There are always exceptions, but it's a good idea to just find a friend irl if you can.
CBT has shown effectiveness but the talk therapy people love is a con. It’s shown at best to have no effect but more often make people worse.

Therapy is a status badge. If your some LA douchbag who can’t wear a Rolex as it would annoy your lefty peers then paying a therapist a small fortune weekly to narcissisticly talk about yourself not only signals your wealth it signals your virtue.

Talk therapy is the cause of a lot of troonery and not an answer to it.
 
CBT has shown effectiveness but the talk therapy people love is a con. It’s shown at best to have no effect but more often make people worse.

Therapy is a status badge. If your some LA douchbag who can’t wear a Rolex as it would annoy your lefty peers then paying a therapist a small fortune weekly to narcissisticly talk about yourself not only signals your wealth it signals your virtue.

Talk therapy is the cause of a lot of troonery and not an answer to it.
It doesn't help that psychology is very ideologically captured by wokeness. But yes, real therapy is hard. Real therapy requires serious introspection and admitting that you have a problem, and your ways of dealing with said problem aren't working. It takes effort to fix that.

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We need a term for incel > troon pipeline.
Trancel/Transcel is a good one.

Every incel should just cut their dick off and then 41% before they think about committing mass shootings.

All troons were incels to begin with; no reason for a special category. Nobody is reasonably popular with/and relates well with the opposite sex and then decides to chop their dick off.

This is a pretty fascinating shooting, because of all the shootings in recent memory this one seems to glow the least to me. Even with the Epstein shit; this is not the outcome anyone would have wanted on any side of the spectrum. Just an old fashion sperg.
 
Al-Anime Avatar taking revenge on a chick who friendzoned him, perhaps?
Mass shooters are never motivated by desires for revenge as you would imagine, that's too logical. They're almost always due to a craving for power, the thrill of killing people to feel powerful.
 
Did anyone archive his videos, rather than just his social media pages before they got nuked?

I'm morbidly curious.
I'd like to see them too. The TikTok was already dead by the time I got to it.

@heisenbuug Nice work with the Twitter archive, it's much better than nothing. I only saved his Splatoon posts since they were the only real OC on there:
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I seriously predict more troons would end up shooting schools and the media abusing this to blame "white supremacy" and give us more reasons to ban guns.
 
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