Experts say the falsehoods about trans people following violent events range from misinformation, where people genuinely believe the wrong information, to deliberately disseminated disinformation, which includes Ellis' case. Disinformation "is something where the goal is to deliberately lie in order to stoke hatred," says Thomas Billard, an associate professor at Northwestern University who specializes in transgender studies. "These are people who either know that the person involved isn't trans and are saying that they are anyways or have no idea who the school shooter or the pilot is; the purpose is just to make other people hate them."
Even as transgender people form less than 1 percent of the country's population, Trump has made them one of his primary targets, signing a host of executive orders, including ones that revoke funding and support for youth gender-affirming care and barring trans women and girls from participating in women's sports, along with the aforementioned military ban. So far, there have been at least 116 state anti-trans bills passed this year. Moreover, several words including "trans" and "transgender" have been purged from federal agency websites...
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