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Trans Group on Nashville Shooting: ‘Anti-Trans Hate’ Has ‘Consequences’
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Trans Group on Nashville Shooting: ‘Anti-Trans Hate’ Has ‘Consequences’
Robert Kraychik 28 Mar 2023
A Twitter profile by the name of Trans Resistance Network wrote on Monday that “anti-trans hate” has “consequences” in relation to the killing of six people at a Christian school in Nashville, TN.
The man who killed six people — including three children — in Nashville “felt he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others,” according to the Trans Resistance Network’s statement.
The statement alleged that right-wing figures promote “anti-trans hate” by “calling for nothing less than the genocidal eradication of trans people from society”:
--- Quote --- The Trans Resistance Network has been notified the shooter involved in today’s church school shooting in Nashville, TN, was a person identifying as transgender, known from online profiles as Aiden or Aubrey Hale (He, Him).
While it is not our policy to engage publicly with news media, we believe this moment calls for a thoughtful response from our collective.
We point out that today’s incident in Nashville, TN is not one tragedy, but two.
The first tragedy today is the loss of life of three children and adults. We extend our deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers to those families dealing with the loss of loved ones. There is nothing we can offer that will comfort the hurt, or ease the sorrow. We mourn with you.
The second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Aubrey Hale, who felt he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others, and consequence, himself.
We do not claim to know the individual or have access to their inner thoughts and feelings. We do know that life for transgender people is very difficult, and made more difficult in the preceding months by a virtual avalanche of anti-trans legislation, and public callouts by Right Wing personalities and political figures calling for nothing less than the genocidal eradication of trans people from society.
Many transgender people deal with anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide, and PTSD from the near constant drum beat of anti-trans hate, lack of acceptance from family members and certain religious institutions, denial of our existence, and calls for de-transition and forced conversion.
All of these factors contribute to a population that is medically under-served and who often face anti-trans bias while accessing care leading to significant physical and mental health disparities. Hate has consequences.
It is a testament to the inner strength and beauty of transgender people, that despite the overwhelming odds of homelessness, job discrimination, and constant anti-trans bigotry and violence, so many of us continue to persevere, survive, and even thrive. We will not be eradicated or erased.
We remind the news media to respect the self-identified pronouns of transgender individuals who come across your desk. Aiden Hale self identified with “He, Him” pronouns on forward facing sites. We also urge you to avoid pandering to those individuals on the Right who will use this double-tragedy to torment fear and terror of transgender people in order to advance a political agenda of transgender elimination. Biased and sensationalized coverage of these viewpoints is both irresponsible and reprehensible.
Requests for interviews with be referred back to this statement.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/28/trans-group-on-nashville-shooting-anti-trans-hate-has-consequences/
mountaineer:
We do not claim to know the individual or have access to their inner thoughts and feelings ... but we'll claim to speak for her anyway.
Why won't the police release her "manifesto"? Is it true the FBI took it?
Kamaji:
No, this is not about blaming the victims. This is the consequence of affirming mental illness and giving powerful hormones and other drugs to someone who is mentally unstable.
This is about the madness that is the lie of trans.
mountaineer:
The gays don't want us to see her so-called manifesto. Gee, why?
--- Quote ---Audrey Hale Manifesto Release Raises Major Concerns From LGBTQ+ Groups
By Katherine Fung On 3/28/23 at 1:58 PM EDT
Calls for police to release the "manifesto" that authorities say was written ahead of Monday's Nashville school shooting has prompted concern among LGBTQ+ groups, who caution against the publication of such a document. ...
Speaking at a press conference hours after the shooting, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake, who said the shooter identified as transgender, confirmed that officials were in possession of a "manifesto," a map detailing how the incident would take place and writings "that pertain to this date, the actual incident." ...
"It should not be published," Jordan Budd, the executive director of Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), told Newsweek. "The focus should be on how this was able to happen in the first place. There should not be such easy access to deadly weaponry."
Charles Moran, the national president of Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP organization that advocates for equal rights for LGBTQ+ Americans, also told Newsweek that there are "serious consequences" for the public release of the manifesto.
"While it would certainly give insight into the motivations of this deeply troubled individual that could help shed light into root causes, we know from tragedies like this that additional glorification of the shooter could inspire others to take similar violent acts for attention," Moran said. ...
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Newsweek
No, Jordan, the focus is not how an adult exercised her 2nd Amendment rights and legally purchased "deadly weaponry," it's why she took out her anger, frustration or whatever it was on children and other innocent people.
NavyCanDo:
Can you imagine if the killer was a white supremacist and the post shooting comments came from associated extremists groups. The news would be all over it with endless coverage on the domestic terrorist threat, and rightfully so. But watching ABC News tonight there was zero mention that the killer was a Trans and no mention of potential threats.
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