Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which works to advance LGBTQ equality in the House, on Tuesday slammed “idiots” who claimed without evidence that the shooter at a Wisconsin private school a day earlier was transgender.

Two people — one teenage student and a teacher — were killed and another six were injured, including two students in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, in a shooting Monday at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis. Local authorities identified the shooter as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name “Samantha” and was a student there. No evidence suggests Rupnow identified as trans.

“To all the idiots who claimed the shooter was trans with no information whatsoever to believe that, f**k off. Your ignorance speaks volumes. Your hate is consuming your brains (or what’s left of them),” Pocan wrote early Tuesday on the social platform X, responding to a........

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