Media Outlets And Activists Desperately Try To Make Nashville School Shooter Seem Like The Victim Because She Was "Misgendered"

In an affluent area of Nashville, TN on Monday, a 28-year-old broke into The Covenant School and murdered six people. Three of the victims were 9-year-old children and the other three were adults working at the school. The murderer was identified as Audrey Hale, a woman who previously attended the school. It was quickly discovered that she called herself a trans man and often went by the name Aiden. She sent messages of warning to someone she used to play basketball with, Averianna Patton, and said that she was "planning to die today." Hale sent her "last goodbye" and said she would see Averianna in another life.

"Audrey! You have so much more life to live," her friend responded. "I pray God keeps and covers you."

It wasn't enough to stop Hale. Minutes later, she walked into The Covenant School with multiple firearms and brutally murdered six people in cold blood. If it weren't for the brave actions of local first responders and law enforcement, she would have likely killed many more innocent victims. As the news story was developing, the early news stories correctly referred to her as a female, but after it was revealed that she identified as a transgender person, the media frantically released multiple statements of regret about "misgendering" her.

Media Outlets and Activists Desperately Try To Make Nashville School Shooter a Victim of "Misgendering"

Every mainstream outlet, from CNN to USA Today, initially referred to the Nashville shooter with the correct biological pronouns. Audrey Hale was a woman and was referred to as she/her. However, everything changed when the news started pouring out about Hale's transgender identity and history of making creepy art. On Monday evening, just hours after the massacre, multiple news outlets issued statements of regret about supposedly using the wrong pronouns to refer to Hale.

"Update: A previous post about the Nashville Christian school shooting included initial information from police officials about the suspect's gender. Those officials have since noted that the shooter was transgender," MSNBC tweeted at 1:09 a.m. on Monday night.

"There was confusion later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the Nashville shooting. Officials had used 'she' and 'her' to refer to the suspect, who, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months," the New York Times tweeted at 8:17 p.m. on Monday.

"Police on Monday afternoon said that the shooter was a transgender man. Officials had initially misidentified the gender of the shooter," USA Today tweeted at 7:05 p.m. on Monday night.

Conservative pundit and activist Matt Walsh shared a clip of a local news station that did a segment about the Nashville shooter. But instead of focusing on the innocent victims of the slaughtering, it featured trans activists and expressed concern about how trans people might be treated in the aftermath of this tragedy. "A trans terrorist massacred Christian children but the real victims, according to our satanic media, are trans people," he tweeted.

Journalist and commentator Jack Posobiec shared a statement that was released by the Trans Resistance Network, which claimed that Audrey Hale was a victim in this violent attack. "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 by consequence, himself," the letter said. "Hate has consequences."

The Trans Resistance Network describes itself as a "collective of experienced organizers, committed allies, and concerned groups." Posobiec and many other well-known conservative commentators and influencers shared the letter in disbelief, resulting in thousands of people commenting about how tone-deaf and downright cruel this letter was. "The ONLY victims of this tragedy were the 3 eight-nine yo children, the 3 teachers/administrators and their families. Period, [sic]" someone commented.

Meanwhile, several families and entire communities in the Nashville area are mourning the loss of six innocent people who were simply going about their day-to-day life. The media outlets and the activists they bow to have the audacity to claim that the real victim from Monday's tragedy was the shooter who walked into The Covenant School with multiple firearms and murdered children and adults in cold blood.

There have also been multiple videos found on social media platforms in which people blame Tennessee residents for ushering in bills that keep children protected from gender theory and drag shows, claiming you "reap what you sow," as if these innocent children deserve to die because of political disagreements.

The internet becomes more and more polarized as these videos emerge. Matt Walsh tweeted, "Trans activists believe that those who oppose them should die. I know this because a great many of them have told me this. They have communicated the message to me and my family in many ways. They think their right to affirmation supersedes your right to live."

Tension continues to rise online as more and more details emerge about this mass shooting.