More recent reports quote people who knew her saying she “very recently came out as trans” and that “no one was surprised”. No word so far on whether she had started down the testosterone road yet, at least not that I have seen.
If she had, well, I just looked up side effects of testosterone shots in women, and one is “Some women have mood swings and become angry or hostile.” So maybe she had? Those who knew her described her as “sweet” and “very nice” and “a little quiet” and were shocked at what she did. Of course friends and neighbors of mass murderers are usually shocked. But testosterone shots could partly explain her transformation from nice, sweet, shy young thing into crazed mass murderer.
Reports also coming out that she was on the autism spectrum. If true, that might explain her new “trans” identity at 28. Sad how people with autism are getting sucked into this trans craze.
I think the confusion started because of the way it was being reported in the first minutes. Initial reports said the shooter was male. Then surprise! Female! Then police stated she was trans. The media was all agog over the shooter being a woman, then added “trans” and calling her a “trans woman”, the term they use for a man who pretends to be a woman. Lots of Freepers are *still* confused. It would be funny in a “who’s on first” sense if not for the horrible murders.
Anyway, my sense of her is that she had a bad case of whatever the female version of Peter Pan Syndrome is — she hated and feared being an adult and could not function in the adult world. Perhaps because of her autism, if those reports are correct.
I always wonder how these school shooters afford all that fancy kit and guns. According to the Heavy article: “Hale worked as a freelance graphic designer, a cat sitter and a grocery shopper for Shipt, according to Hale’s LinkedIn profile. Hale also created a children’s book about a support dog named Millie, according to the now-deleted LinkedIn profile.”
The artwork displayed online is not that of a real graphic designer, but someone who thinks of herself as an artist and illustrator, and not nearly good enough to be commercially successful at all. It’s hard enough for a really good experienced graphic designer to make a living solely as a freelance (most pick up freelance work for extra money on top of their job), let alone as a freelance artist/illustrator. I seriously doubt she made any money from her art (which is mediocre at best). As for her children’s book, lots and lots of people create them and very, very few are able to sell them. It’s a super tough market.
So where did she get a few thousand to splash out on those guns and that kit? From cat sitting? Seriously? I realize she was living with her parents or mother, but still. Grocery shopping? Cat sitting? That would barely cover her car insurance, gas, etc. I suppose if she saved up for a long time.