Media Twists Itself Into Knots Covering Transgender School ShooterLaurel Duggan
Social Issues and Culture Reporter
March 28, 2023 9:38 AM ET
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Corporate media outlets have stumbled around the name and pronouns of a shooter who killed three schoolchildren and three adults Monday after the public learned that the killer was transgender.
Police identified Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old woman who used male pronouns and identified as transgender, as the person behind the shooting, but initial reports referred to Hale as a woman. Mainstream outlets had initially called Hale a woman in their headlines, stories and tweets; rather than referring to the killer by preferred pronouns, some outlets are avoiding references to gender altogether.
CNN edited an article after publication Monday to remove the word “woman,” but the updated article made no mention of the shooter’s transgender identity.
The New York Times corrected the record on Twitter after publishing an article soon after the shooting illustrating how rare mass shootings by females were.
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