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.
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what rights do trans people think they have over non trans people?
The left always changes the narrative. The media will never state the truth about what happened.
They can't handle the truth.
If they could, they wouldn't be "trans".
Well all knew the “Trans People Fear Backlash” stories were coming.
“Advocates worry . . .”
Who are these advocates?
AP maybe?
Don't
Care
(esp. when it's AssPress agitprop)
F’n AP, What a load of BS.
Six people murdered, including three nine-year old children, but trannies must face rhetoric and disinformation?! The horror!
Sounds like a serious question- which AP can't stand to address.
Got that?
Mentally ill murderer and member of the new, woke genital mutilation political faction called “trans” is actually a victim of mean conservatives.
Making victims of people who murder children....a new low for the AP.
Nazis had a rough go of it because of that Hitler guy, too.
Speaking of disinformation....
If they are weary of being in the public eye, then they should retire from same. Ha ha.
Yes! Why the secrecy? It must be really damning.
We are living in the upside down.
Now they’re the victims, and I’m just a bigot for not “understanding” them in a way that makes them the most noble and righteous people on the planet.
“amid a historic push for more restrictions on trans people’s rights this year.”
What Rights are being restricted exactly? The right to own property? Buy and own a gun? Vote?
They never come out and say which mythical “rights” are being taken away.
L
Transphobic? Another phobia defined?! F**k off. I will not indulge you in your mental illness. If that makes me transphobic then so be it.
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