There is no indication that Thomas Crooks was trans, or even gay for that matter. The school killers, yes. Kirk, probably so, I hear they found bullets in the gun with messages on them and although they haven't released those messages it appears they were concerning trans people.
And no, woke progressives have not always been violent. I don't think they are violent now, and those that are are outliers. Just like those violent ring wing skinheads are outliers. Do the Proud Boys represent the right? But the Trans community, it appears they have had enough.
I mean I never understood the demonizing of a rare group of people. At best, trans people represent less than one percent of the community, perhaps a bit larger in the younger generation. And in retrospect, it was kind of stupid. These people are tormented from the inside, by very definition. They commit suicide at an alarming rate. It is as if you numbnuts on the right come across a Rottweiler, swaying back and forth as he walks, eyes wild looking, not actually foaming at the mouth, but drooling profusely, and you start throwing rocks at the damn dog. What the hell do you think is going to happen?