Posted on 04/03/2023 7:23:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Anti-transgender rhetoric and disinformation in the days following the shooting at a Nashville Christian school that killed six people have heightened the fears of a community already on edge amid a historic push for more restrictions on trans people’s rights this year.
Authorities haven’t shared any evidence linking Audrey Hale’s gender identity to the motive for the attack, which killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School last week.
Yet right-wing commentators, politicians and other figures have cited the shooting as they’ve shared false claims of a rise in transgender mass shooters and suggested that the fight for trans rights is radicalizing people.
Advocates worry the comments are further jeopardizing transgender people by turning them into scapegoats, at a time when they’re speaking out against a wave of bills focused on trans people in statehouses across the country.
“We’ve certainly seen the uptick in transphobic rhetoric in the past week, even directed towards our own public platforms, and there have absolutely been community members that are wearier of being in the public eye,” the Trans Empowerment Project, an advocacy and support group based in Tennessee, said in a statement.
The rhetoric has come even from members of Congress, with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene questioning whether the shooter was on hormone replacement therapy or medications to treat mental illness.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Wasn’t good enough to “ raise awareness “ by waving rainbow flags, now protesting with “in your face” threats and tee shirts proclaiming an acceptance of gun violence.
Seems odd that a vegan, wind/solar anti-fossil fuel, enviro/climate whacko Alphabet gender confused person would discover that 2nd Amendment rights have purpose, that they would then abuse.
Trans people fear backlash over next week's mass shooting.
Mental patients should be locked up in hospitals until they act normal.
The whole “trans movement” is disinformation.
If i knew that retard was going to kill children in advance ,i would have blew her head off and never would have thought anything about it. These people are so metally ill but yet they are shaping the naritive. My word to them is stay the FK away from me and my family.
Truth is “disinformation” now.
When a disturbed serial killer becomes the poster child for “trans victimization”
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Have there not been more transgender (or non-binary) mass shooters recently compared to the past? I would like to see APs data backing their “fact check” since the shooters have been personally named by those making the case.
When being addressed by the wrong pronoun is the equivalent of ‘genocide”…
Apparently some states allows trans athletes to compete with girls for athletic scholarships:
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/32117426/state-policies-transgender-athlete-participation
GA leaves it up to each school, while FL goes by birth certificate sex designation.
“...Authorities haven’t shared any evidence linking Audrey Hale’s gender identity to the motive for the attack...”
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How is her mental illness not part of the motive? These MSM types really do fall all over themselves trying to obfuscate truth.
The fact that they left are slitting on the Graves of those kids, and are defending a mass serial murderer tells you all you need to,know about how vile the left really are-
Evelyn Dieckhaus could not be reached for comment.
ANY goofy crap they can think up.
rights “over” other people?
Well, there certainly HAS been “a rise” in the number of transgender mass shooters. I know of at least two...Nashville and Uvalde. How many of the others....???
“Trans People Face Rhetoric” Oh the horror of rhetoric! it makes people cry and cower in fear. Having one’s nuts cut off is scarier than rhetoric.
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