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Michael Knowles’s “particularly violent” claim about trans Americans
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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…
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