Radical transgender activists claimed the Nashville police’s identification of Christian school shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale as transgender is serving to continue the “targeting” and “demonizing” of transgender individuals, which, to them, includes their victimization of “violence” at the hands of state laws protecting children and teens from a predatory transgender industry.
Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a former student at the Christian Covenant School, stormed into the school last week, killing three nine-year-old children and three adults before she was shot and killed by police.
While police initially described Hale as a teenager and then as a 28-year-old woman, it was later revealed that Hale identified as transgender.
“Trans people face rhetoric, disinformation after Tennessee school shooting,” read the headline Monday at the Associated Press (AP), following another piece Sunday at NBC News that appeared to use the murders to draw sympathy for transgender individuals with claims of “widespread fear” by “members of the LGBTQ community in Nashville” who say they received death threats in the wake of the shooting.
LGBTQ activists fear, AP stated, that “anti-transgender rhetoric and disinformation” following the shooting “are further jeopardizing transgender people by turning them into scapegoats, at a time when they’re speaking out against a wave of bills focused on trans people in statehouses across the country.”
The Tennessee-based Trans Empowerment Project states its mission is “moving the Trans* community out of crisis and into empowerment by focusing on the abolition of white supremacy to ensure that our most marginalized community members, Disabled Queer and Trans* People of Color, can thrive and live their best lives.”
Let's focus instead on working toward a world where all children can thrive. This means addressing the causes of the gun violence epidemic (which isn't Trans* people) and addressing the inequities created by poverty, racism, and transphobia. https://t.co/uiFjp6WXxo
— Trans Empowerment Project (@trans_empowered) March 28, 2023
Activists and their government and media allies have pushed for a focus on gun control rather than Hale’s transgender identity or the Nashville police’s confirmation last week that Hale had received treatment for an “emotional disorder.”
AP cited “Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s son,” as one who “suggested the FBI and Justice Department monitor ‘violent factions within the trans community,’” and tied that comment to Idaho’s state Republican Party chairman as someone who “invoked the shooting as she called for the governor to sign legislation banning gender affirming medical care for minors.”
Imara Jones, a man who identifies as a woman, is the creator of “The Anti-Trans Hate Machine,” a podcast whose theme is the “disinformation about transgender people.”
According to AP, Jones said “disinformation” is “further isolating, stigmatizing and demonizing trans people, allowing us to be targeted by all forms of violence, both from the state and from individuals.”
AP blames Republican lawmakers for state bills that have been introduced – with the goal of protecting young children and teens from sexually-charged drag queen performances and body-mutilating puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries – as measures that are “restricting transgender people’s rights.”
Yet, when it comes to children undergoing hormonal and surgical interventions for gender dysphoria, even a “gender-affirming” pediatric endocrinologist, who provides education for the transgender industry organization known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), asserted last October that minors cannot comprehend the ramifications of life-altering gender transition procedures.
“Some of the Dutch researchers started – gave some data about young adults who had transitioned and have reproductive regret – like regret – and it’s there,” British Columbia Children’s Hospital’s Daniel Metzger, M.D. told his WPATH Global Education Institute viewers during a video conference. “And I don’t think any of that surprises us.”
Metzger said 14-year-olds do not comprehend the long-term consequences of transgender treatments, particularly when it comes to sterility and future regrets about no longer being able to have children.
“It’s always a good theory to talk about fertility preservation with a 14-year-old, but I know I’m talking to a blank wall, and the same would happen for a cisgender kid right? They’ll be like, ‘Ewww – kids, babies. Gross,’” he explained. “Or, the usual stock answer is, ‘I’m going to adopt, just gonna adopt.’ And then you ask them, ‘Well, what does that involve? Like, how much does that cost? Oh, I thought you just like went to the orphanage and they gave you a baby. No, it’s not quite like that.’”
AP continued:
A large number of transgender people say they regularly face verbal and physical abuse. A Washington Post-KFF survey of transgender adults conducted late last year showed that 64% of trans adults say they have been verbally attacked because of their gender identity, gender expression or sexual identity, and 25% say they have been physically attacked.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, however, noted Friday that much of the “violence” experienced by transgender individuals is coming from other trans people, as indicated by various studies.
Psycom Pro, a psychiatry resource for clinicians, revealed in February 2022 that “[m]ore than half of transgender individuals experience partner violence or gender identity abuse.”
The American Journal of Public Health published an article focused on “Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Population” in May 2020 and concluded:
Transgender individuals experience a dramatically higher prevalence of IPV [Intimate Partner Violence] victimization compared with cisgender individuals, regardless of sex assigned at birth.
In a report in June 2018, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence concluded that “recent research shows that LGBTQ members fall victim to domestic violence at equal or even higher rates compared to their heterosexual counterparts.”
The report observed:
- 43.8% of lesbian women and 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, as opposed to 35% of heterosexual women.
- 26% of gay men and 37.3% of bisexual men have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, in comparison to 29% of heterosexual men.
- In a study of male same sex relationships, only 26% of men called the police for assistance after experiencing near-lethal violence.
- In 2012, fewer than 5% of LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence sought orders of protection.
- Transgender victims are more likely to experience intimate partner violence in public, compared to those who do not identify as transgender.
“Transgender individuals may suffer from an even greater burden of intimate partner violence than gay or lesbian individuals,” the report continued. “Transgender victims of intimate partner violence are more likely to experience threats or intimidation, harassment, and police violence within intimate partner violence.”
Even the pop-culture-friendly Portland Monthly asked in October 2020: “Who is Committing Violence Against Trans Women?”
“I think a lot of cis people assume it’s random hate crimes, like roving bands of Nazis running around murdering people,” responded Paige Kreisman, a transgender Portland political organizer.
“But statistically speaking, the most common perpetrators of violence against trans women are domestic partners,” Kreisman said.
“[V]irtually every study concludes that trans people suffer from high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and suicide, making it plain that this is a mentally challenged population,” Donohue concluded. “How much this contributes to their propensity for violence is not known.”
“Transgenderism is a mental illness,” Los Angeles-based psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald wrote Thursday in his Dissident MD Substack column.
“It stems from a social contagion rampant in American urban centers, spread by social media and the support of corrupt schoolteachers and administrators who have chosen to pursue child sacrifice rather than the education and protection of young people,” he explained. “It feeds on narcissism and victim culture, two toxic wells we have been digging for a number of years.”
McDonald noted that many political leaders responded to the horrific murders at the Nashville Christian school by “labeling the murderer as a victim,” rather than condemning her actions.
“Is this not a denial of reality and an inversion of morality?” the psychiatrist asked. “A young woman murders children in a school, and we are ordered to feel sorry for her while self-flagellating. This reveals a sickness in our society that runs as deep as the mental illness in the shooter.”
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Susan Berry, PhD, is national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected]
Photo “A Doctor and Child with Her Mother” by Pavel Danilyuk.
