In May 2026, social media users alleged a widely shared image showed part of a White House report signed by U.S. President Donald Trump broadly targeting trans rights advocates for death.
The image, an apparent composite of two separate screenshotted texts, displayed the words "pro-transgender" highlighted in yellow in one paragraph, followed by "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You" in the next. Snopes readers sent emails to us with the image attached, asking questions including "Did the President write this?" and "Is this true?"
This is the image social media users shared. (Reposted by @ryanshrime/Threads)
The image includes an anonymous, fearful commentary underneath Trump's signature, dated May 2026:
This is official government policy.
If the government hasn't said they will kill you well,
I hope you never have to experience this.How am I supposed to process this? How am I supposed to just be like but oh this cool show is coming out. How do I drive my car now knowing any vehicle could be the enforcement coming behind me?
I honest cant put into words how this f***ing feels.
Users shared the image in posts interpreting the text as saying the government seeks to target and kill certain people, whether violent or not. For example, users alleged Trump's strategy puts targets on the backs of anyone who spends time with people in favor of trans rights (archived), anyone who opposes Trump's policies in general (archived) and anyone the administration views as anti-American (archived).
In short, this claim is a mixture of truth and misrepresentation. Part of the composite image does consist of genuine excerpts from an official White House report — but they're presented out of order and convey misleading information.
We emailed the White House to ask about the social media posts documenting people's concerns about the government allegedly targeting nonviolent individuals who are in favor of trans rights. In response, spokesperson Anna Kelly referred us to the actual report. We will update this article if we receive further information, including details about the origins of the image and its commentary.
Examining the image's authenticity
The genuine part of the image came from the Trump administration's U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy report released in early May and hosted on the White House website. That report, spearheaded by White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka, specifies "three major types of terror groups," including "narcoterrorists and transnational gangs," "legacy Islamist terrorists" and "violent left-wing extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists."
One part of the document specifically pairs the word "pro-transgender" with the word "violent," reading, "violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender and anarchist."
By doing so, the administration grouped what it called "radically pro-transgender" ideology with anti-Americanism, anarchism, violent gangs and terrorist groups.
Snopes readers were especially curious to know whether the Trump administration actually released the report as shown. The creator of the image combined real paragraphs from two different pages without credibly noting the edit, falsely making it appear to readers as if the highlighted "pro-transgender" line directly preceded the paragraph with the highlighted words "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You."
That "find" and "kill" sentence does appear in the report, but several pages earlier in the "presidential foreword," which specifically references terrorists, the Iran war, cartels and gangs — and makes no direct mention of left-leaning groups or trans rights advocates.
Researching the counterterrorism report
The Trump administration's counterterrorism strategy report contains several sections leading up to the "radically pro-transgender" line. For example, Page 4 in the 16-page document says (emphasis ours):
Counterterrorism (CT) is a core part the national security mission, and its primary objective is to protect Americans from being harmed by terrorist groups and to deter and undermine the support they receive from enemy actors. Additionally, we recognize that a new type of domestic terrorism has emerged, driven by violent extremists who have adopted ideologies antithetical to freedom and the American way of life.
Page 6 expounds on the "antithetical" ideologies thought (emphasis ours):
America's new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is driven by the principle that America is our homeland. Americans should be safe to live their lives without the fear of terror attacks, the threat of Jihadists, the flooding of our communities with deadly drugs at the hands of foreign narcoterrorists, or violent left-wing extremists who have adopted radical ideologies antithetical to the principles upon which our Republic was founded.
Page 7 contains the "pro-transgender" line visible in the image users shared, which once again continues the theme of ideologies allegedly antithetical to American values (emphasis ours):
In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.
Page 7 also features a line referencing the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, labeling shooting suspect Tyler Robinson — without mentioning him by name — "a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies." At the time of the Sept. 10, 2025, shooting, The New York Times and other publications reported Robinson's roommate and romantic partner was transitioning to female.
In sum, though a "Presidential Foreword" written by Trump threatens to "find and kill" people who "hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans," it does not appear to be directed at nonviolent trans rights advocates.
For further reading, we previously reported about a rumor that the Trump administration admitted to "medically experimenting" on incarcerated trans people.