30 years now providing counseling/therapy in a school setting, so take this for what it's worth.
Transgenderism is so blended now with social contagion that those immersed in it are very often deeply confused about who they really are. I blame the left for a lot of that as the affirming of gender fluidity has been horribly harmful. Kids are struggling with identity issues in their early adolescent years and the transgender label is a desperate play for identity in most of the contagion kids. Yes, there are and have always been true transgender children, but the number has grown in the past 10-15 years because of the push and constant affirmation from the left. Most kids claiming to be transgender aren't truly transgender, but are deeply confused and need support- the vast majority have trauma in their past to deal with and that comes first before looking at the gender-related issues.
What I hope the left and right and everyone in between can always agree on is that kindness is always the answer to so much of what ills the world. Be kind. To everyone. But, you don't have to further mix up an already mixed-up kid to be kind to them. When the trauma is addressed and processed, most times the contagion kids looking for some sort of identity abandon the idea of gender fluidity. I have a great deal of experience with this. And, occasionally they don't because, again, there are kids out there who are legit in regards to transgenderism.
As for the shooting yesterday, transgenderism is not the lead story in all of that, but it's not a non-story either. There are a lot of people we're not giving help to because we don't want them to feel as if they need it when they really, really do.