In an news article yesterday – not an opinion piece – NBC News explained who the real victims of Monday’s horrific shooting at a Christian school in Nashville are and it’s disgusting.
In an article entitled “Fear pervades Tennessee’s trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter’s gender identity”, NBC News accuses Republicans like JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Green of targeting the transgender community after the shooting.
Shortly after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian Nashville elementary school, police said the suspect was transgender. This detail, according to trans people in the state, has poured fuel on an already combustive environment that has led many of them to fear for their safety.
Police say Audrey Hale, who was killed by responding officers, fatally shot three 9-year-old students and three staffers at The Covenant School. Though police have said there is no known motive for the shooting, some conservatives have blamed the shooting on the suspect’s gender identity.
Within 10 minutes of police saying that the suspect was transgender, the hashtag #TransTerrorism trended on Twitter. Around the same time, Republican lawmakers — including Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. — insinuated in social media posts that the shooter’s gender identity played a role in the shooting. And by Tuesday morning, the cover of the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post read: “Transgender killer targets Christian school.”
“We are terrified for the LGBTQ community here,” Kim Spoon, a trans activist based in Knoxville, Tennessee, said. “More blood’s going to be shed, and it’s not going to be shed in a school.”
Aislinn Bailey, the acting president of Tri-Cities Transgender, a trans-led support and advocacy group based in Johnson City, Tennessee, said her initial reaction to news that the suspect was transgender was fear.
“I knew that as soon as anyone mentioned that, it was immediately going to become the center focus instead of what should be the focus, and that’s gun violence in this country,” Bailey said.
She condemned the choice by police to release information about the suspect’s gender identity when they did not appear certain about it.
Six Christians were massacred on Monday, three of which were children, and the trans community is the real victims here? Give me a break.
There is no one advocating violence against the trans community. In fact it’s the other way around, with the trans community holding a “Transgender Day Of Vengeance” at the Supreme Court on Saturday.
Why not do an article on fear sweeping Christians in Tennessee over retaliation by trans terrorist because of an appropriate law passed in the state that protects children from the trans mafia.
They won’t do that. They aren’t concerned with Christians at all even though they are the actual victims of trans violence.