Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia are among the Republicans highlighting the shooter’s transgender identity.Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Nashville shooter identified as transgender, according a police statement Monday that was later walked back. Some Republicans, including JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are suggesting the shooter's trans identity played a role. There's no evidence to suggest that identifying as transgender leads to a propensity for inflicting violence. Following a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee, some prominent Republicans are highlighting the fact that the perpetrator was transgender — and suggesting that their identity played a role in causing the violence.Details continue to emerge about the Monday shooting, but there is no evidence to suggest that identifying as transgender leads to a propensity for inflicting violence.By contrast, several studies have found that transgender people face disproportionate levels of violence by virtue of their identity.On Monday, a 28-year-old identified by local police as Audrey Hale killed three elementary school students and three adult staff members at The Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, before being killed by police.The local police chief told reporters Monday afternoon that the perpetrator identified as transgender.