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I think the whole story is pretty straightforward. you have a group told by their allies that their political opponents want them dead and whose political opponents often take glee in being cruel to them. It's really not rocket science how you get radicalized people out of this. Especially if you believe, like I do, that this is a population particularly susceptible to memes and inserting themselves into narratives. People looking for reasons that they don't fit into society.
I've many disagreements with trans activists but I really don't think this is like a hormones cause radicalization thing. If they were left alone and allowed to live out their fantastical identity then I don't think they'd be particularly violent, well at least as far as the baseline for men.
Yeah, it's not hormones, the community itself is quite culty, and the ideology is radical.
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Nor do I. I'm confident the radicalisation pathway looks a lot more like "spending a lot of time in online echo chambers in which violent 'resistance' is seen as an urgent necessity" as opposed to anything to do with medical transition itself. That being said, testosterone does increase aggression - I don't know if we know for a fact that the shooter in Nashville had ever taken T, but given the demographic it seems likely, and maybe in the counterfactual world where she hadn't taken it, she doesn't go through with the shooting.
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