An administration official is now blaming hormone replacement therapy for the mass shooting earlier this week in Minneapolis, even though theres no evidence that the shooter was even receiving gender affirming care, much less hormone replacement therapy.One of the factors that is not getting discussed is that pumping a child full of drugs that purport to change their gender identity has numerous side effects, it has permanent side effects, said Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. attorney general for the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. She was speaking about Robin Westman, the sole suspect in a shooting that resulted in two children dying and fourteen other people being injured while on Eric Bollings Real Americas Voice show. Related Harmeet Dhillons civil rights record raises alarms for LGBTQ+ advocates Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today I have represented four young people who have had this done to them, lied to, and manipulated by adults. They are permanently crippled in many ways, Dhillon, who has a history of anti-transgender activism, said. In this case, its led to a shooting.She then brought up an assault in a case in Portland, Oregon, that she worked on where she claimed that many of the attackers were trans. They were young, disaffected people in their early 20s who were lied to by adults, pumped full of drugs, and those drugs have side effects, she said. Dhillon then said that, while adults need to be held accountable for what happened, guns do not. Of course, politicians are immediately running to the cameras and talking about guns and banning guns, she said. You know, Minnesota has a lot of big problems; they should all go look in the mirror before they run to the cameras.Conservatives have spent the days since the shooting attacking transgender people because the shooter may have been transgender, while often saying explicitly that easy access to guns should not be blamed for the shooting. There is a name-change request from 2020 that was filed in the state for someone changing their name to Robin Westman because the person identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification. Westman killed themself after the shooting, and its not known how they identified at the time of their death. Its also not known if Westman ever sought out any form of gender-affirming medical care, including hormone replacement therapy.Moreover, gender-affirming care has been shown to improve mental health for trans people, reducing suicidality, depression, and anxiety. Its also not clear what proof Dhillon has that testosterone suppression would increase a persons aggressiveness.Last, Dhillon repeatedly referred to Westman as a child, when they were 23 at the time of their death. Hormone replacement therapy is not the only class of medical care that is getting blamed for mass shootings without proof. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. blamed antidepressants yesterday, while answering a question on Fox News about whether gender-affirming care caused the shooting.We are doing those kinds of studies now, Kennedy said. At [the National Institutes of Health], were launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor] drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. You know, many of them have black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. So we need, we cant exclude those as a culprit.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.