Posted on 11/23/2022 6:28:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Elizabeth Pixie is angry.
She’s angry that her friend Daniel Aston died in a shooting at Club Q. She’s angry that she had to move to Colorado from Texas because she felt unsafe as a trans woman there. And she’s angry with people who have spread anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online — some for years — leading up to the shooting.
“They can call it religion, they can call it politics, they can call it saving people,” Pixie, who lives in Colorado Springs, said. “Whatever fluff or s--- they want to sprinkle on it, they can do that, but at the end of the day, these people are murderers.”
Late Saturday, a gunman entered the LGBTQ club and opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle, killing Aston and four other people and injuring at least 19 others. The suspect was apprehended by police after being injured in the attack and is in the hospital. While authorities have not shared a motive, he is facing five counts of first-degree murder and bias-motivated or hate crimes.
Pixie isn’t alone in her fury. While contending with heartbreak, other Colorado Springs locals and national activists also described being angry, and they attribute that rage to the wave of anti-LGBTQ bills proposed by conservative representatives in dozens of states, a rise in anti-trans violence and a failure by some of the media to accurately report on it all.
“I keep going back and forth between a level of devastation, sorrow and loss to a level of anger,” Pixie, 30, said.
Pixie, who worked in a pharmacy, said she left Texas also because the state began investigating parents who provide gender-affirming care to minors. She didn’t want to be forced to turn in any of her minor customers.
She specifically named the social media account Libs of TikTok.
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My “Give A Damn” meter seems to be stuck on zero.
Kind of like the way we’re tired of the “media” pimping it like it’s the end of the world?
Damn, I would love not to give a crap, but my “don’t give a crap” tank is all filled up.
Rhetoric? Oh please.
Their little community did this to themselves. The shooter identifies as “non-binary”.
But the drama queens want to spew hate for normal people, Christians, and Republicans. Never lose an opportunity to hate normal people.
“gunman.... he is facing five..”
UH OH!!!
They have violated their own rules... The shooter is THEY/THEM!!
news is committing hate crime by mis-gendering!
She didn’t want to be forced to turn in any of her minor customers.
she wanted to continue to mutilate and castrate minors.
Elizabeth Pixie.....Fake name, fake life.
It’s NOT our guns; it’s YOUR sons.
And as we get closer and closer to the end, it will get worse and worse. How long before the MSM declares the Bible “hate speech” in this Country?
So disagreeing with their life choice is considered targeting them ??? Omg.....
The disturbed feel stigmatized. Film at eleven.
Americans should ignore any bile being spewed by a mentally ill man like this guy, in my opinion. NBC is just making things worse by calling him “she.”
A non-binary they-them pronouns homo shot up the place.
I missed the part where the non-binary, they/them LGBTQLMONOP+#$@^&* killer was inspired by any conservative “rhetoric.”
Utter BS.
No matter what happened at that club, LGBT is still bad for America and even worse for its children.
That's one angry Pixie...
Did I not read this morning that the shooter himself (itself?) is non-binary?
This all reads like black people complaining about rap lyrics.
Can the writer state the specific rhetoric, please????
No one deals in specifics..just generalities and they get the attention they seek and get away with it.
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