Michael Knowles told his audience "we know that the transvestite community is particularly violent." We rate it FALSE — truth score 0.1, confidence 0.82.

The aside came one day after a real federal sentencing, and that is exactly how this move works: one prosecuted case, then a property assigned to millions of people.

On 19 August 2026, in Ep. 2041 of The Michael Knowles Show, the line arrives as a subordinate clause during a segment about Ryan Michael English — who goes by Riley Jane — sentenced to 73 months in federal prison for a January 2025 plot to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the U.S. Capitol.

We steelman the other side before landing. John Lott's Crime Prevention Research Center argues that in 2024 transgender individuals committed active-shooter attacks at 12–16 times their population share, resting on two re ...