Republicans Want You to Forget Their Complicity in the Nashville Shooting

Conservatives want to make the massacre about trans people or religion—anything but the blood-soaked murder factory they’ve forced us all to live in.

The Nation
Republican Politicians Are Pouncing on the Nashville Shooting to Spew Anti-Trans Rhetoric

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., and others are capitalizing on the shooting to spread disinformation and hatred.

Them.
Nashville shooting: Conservatives are using tragedy to push an anti-trans agenda

Multiple far-right lawmakers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and commentators responded to the shooting with transphobic statements.

Vox

The #Tragic #Confluence of #Guns, #Kids, #MassShootings, and #Trans #identities

In the U.S., it’s more #guns over #children, with the #extreme #rightwing continuing to say it’s not #guns that #kill, it’s #sick #people – like #LGBTQ+ #people – that do.

https://www.advocate.com/voices/covenant-school-guns-op-ed

The Tragic Confluence of Guns, Kids, Mass Shootings, and Trans Identities

In the U.S., it’s more guns over children, with the extreme right continuing to say it’s not guns that kill, it’s sick people – like LGBTQ+ people – that do.

Advocate.com
The Far Right Is Exploiting the Nashville Tragedy to Promote Transphobia

As soon as it became known that the shooter may have identified as trans, the right-wing media outrage ecosystem went to work.

Advocate.com
The Right's Fixation on the Gender Identity of the Nashville Killer Is Disgusting—and Telling | Opinion

Rather than seriously discuss the gun problem, parts of the Right would prefer to stoke their moral panic about trans people.

Newsweek
Anti-Trans Skapegoating is a Distraction to the Problem of Gun Violence, and the Right Knows It - INTO

The right is already blaming trans people for the Nashville shooting.

INTO

#TuckerCarlson Spews Truly #Evil #Trash About #Trans #People In '#Christianity' #Rant.

The #FoxNews host amped up the #chorus of #rightwing #antitrans #hate following a #MassShooting at a #school in #Nashville, #tennessee

Nashville #police have reported that Hale was assigned female at birth but had been using male pronouns on social media platforms. The shooter’s #genderidentity, though, remains unclear.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-trans-christian-rant_n_6423a8dde4b0512ca9217b5f

Tucker Carlson Spews Truly Evil Trash About Trans People In 'Christianity' Rant

The Fox News host amped up the chorus of right-wing anti-trans hate following a school shooting in Nashville.

HuffPost
Fear pervades trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity

Shortly after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian Nashville elementary school, police said the suspect was transgender.

NBC News
Explained: Why Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale is an extremely rare assailant

Explained: Why Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale is an extremely rare assailant

WION
Crack down on guns for the Nashville school shooting, not trans people

A 28-year-old transgender man named Audrey Hale appears responsible for the Nashville shooting. That’s a tragedy, but no excuse to crack down on trans rights.

San Francisco Chronicle
@Susan_Larson_TN is this called Transplaining or what? FFS. People do terrible things for many reasons. It isn't all about categories of virtuous belonging.