On Monday, Nashville police held a briefing after the attack at a Christian school there where three adults and three children were murdered in a shooting rampage. According to police, the victims were shot and killed when Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old transgender former student of the Covenant School, entered the premises with two "assault-type rifles" and a handgun and began firing.
According to Nashville police, the six victims killed in the shooting were 9-year-olds, William Kinney, Evelyn Dieckhaus, and Hallie Scruggs, with adults - Cynthia Peak, 61, Mike Hill, 61, and Katherine Koonce, 60. Reportedly, Koonce was the head of the school, Peak was a substitute teacher and Hill was a custodian at the school.
A far-left radical transgender "collective” called the Trans Resistance Network (TRN) made an inflammatory statement, in the wake of the Covenant School shooting, on Monday, saying the transgender Nashville shooter felt-
"no other effective way to be seen" adding “Hate has consequences,”… "There is nothing we can offer that will comfort the hurt, or ease the sorrow,"… "We mourn with you."
-Trans Resistance Network
According to the TRN website, it
"is a collective of experienced organizers, committed allies, and concerned groups who are coming together for the long-term survival and well-being of gender diverse people in a more extreme environment."…"The Trans Resistance Network (TRN) was formed to ensure the survival of gender diverse people and families through strategic coordination of community defense, mutual-aid, and alternative systems of gender affirming care” …"We prioritize support for gender diverse children and families who are facing imminent danger, and gender diverse people who are Indigenous, Black and Brown. Trans rights are human rights!"
-Trans Resistance Network
TRN called the mass murder a dual "tragedy," the first of which was the deaths of the children and adults in the school and extended their –
"deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers to those families dealing with the loss of loved ones”…adding…
"The second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Audrey Hale, who felt [she] had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others, and by consequence, [herself]," they continued…[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 for nothing less than the genocidal eradication of trans people from society." claiming
"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 faces anti-trans bias while accessing care leading to significant physical and mental health disparities,"
-Trans Resistance Network
Then lauding transgender people, in the wake of this massive tragedy, the “collective” said-
"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."
-Trans Resistance Network
Then making a veiled threat to the media, the radical group, wrote to
"remind the news media to respect the self-identified pronouns of transgender individuals who come across
your desk.""[Audrey] 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." …adding…"Biased and sensationalized coverage of these viewpoints is both irresponsible and reprehensible,"
--Trans Resistance Network
The reality is, that groups with this kind of self-focused, aggrandizing, individualistic perspective, who selfishly claim to represent others, are the exact reason that youth who grow up gender confused - wind up committing suicide (in all manner of ways), after trying to be some sort of “themselves”, never attaining the trans dream of nirvana, which these groups lay before them as the ideal.
Sadly, groups like TRN, excuse these individuals, even laud their murderess actions, against those who are less able to fight or even protect themselves. There is no honor in being an angry bully. In reality, they often perpetrate on others what they claim as a “torment” to themselves. They support “sensationalized coverage of their own viewpoints that can be described as both irresponsible and reprehensible.” That statement from them - describes them.
Hale her lost her life, inflicting hurt and pain on others, robbing them of what she herself sought – the freedom to live their dreams with acceptance. She lost her voice when she took theirs. Reportedly she chose the school because it was not well defended, using hand-drawn maps with detailed entry points, which were found at Hale’s Nashville home. This is the act of a coward – not a hero.
According to local FOX affiliate WZTV, numerous local churches held prayer vigils Monday evening and several more are scheduled in the coming days to pay respects to the victims and offer the community's support for their families.
“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”
-Frederick William Robertson