By Helen Coster and Maria Tsvetkova

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Moments before he was killed at a Utah university Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was taking a question about transgender people and mass shootings.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” the event attendee asked.

“Too many,” Kirk replied.

Data shows trans people conduct a very small percentage of mass shootings, according to the fact-checking website PolitiFact. But the reply was vintage stuff for the conservative activist and provocateur who became a MAGA celebrity over the past decade and is credited with inspiring a generation of college students to become politically active and turn out for President Donald Trump.

In debates across the country, on college campuses, podcasts and o

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