Armed Minorities are Harder to Oppress: The Case for Trans Community Defense

The following article was originally posted to Assigned Media. It has been syndicated with the permission of the original publisher.

Originally published Sep. 16, 2025

By Jane Migliara Brigham

Before his body was even cold, various fascist public figures were trying to find a connection between the assassination of Charlie Kirk and trans people at large.  This comes off of the heels of a recent mass shooting in Minneapolis by a detransitioner, which was also blamed on us. 

These shootings are being used as a pretext to ban transgender people from owning firearms.  The justification is that it prevents those with mental illnesses from getting guns, as bigots and psychologists are fond of declaring us mentally ill.

This is contradicted by internal discussions in the DOJ, with one official allegedly saying “We’re not playing semantics with words like dysphoria. We’re talking about trannies, and we don’t think they should have guns”. 

This support was also seen at the local level, with similar proposals coming from the Pierce County Sheriff, whose agency would likely be responsible for enforcing such a ban.

Trans people are no strangers to discrimination and double standards.  Even as gun organizations like the National Rifle Association and others oppose the ban on constitutional grounds, the false idea that we are mentally ill has made many wary of defending us and our rights.

We should not mince words about why The Trump Administration wants to ban us from owning guns.  The fascist movement behind it has made it clear that it wants to “remove transgenderism from public life”, as Micheal Knowles put it before a cheering audience.  Project 2025, the blueprint of the current government, calls our very existence pornography as it calls for pornography to be banned. 

The implication is that you remove the idea of transgenderism from society by removing the people that embody it, aka trans people ourselves.