Quick Take: And the Covenant School Six...?
Gender ideology demands the erasure of six murders and the absolution of the killer
As if the friends and loved ones of the six people—three of them children—gunned down in last week’s Covenant School shooting didn’t have enough anguish inflicted on them, “trans activists” and our despicable media have been working hard to make sure that their pain is maximized. The instant it was learned that the shooter was one Audrey Hale, a biological female “identifying” as a male, the usual script followed in the wake of a mass shooting was tossed out. Except from some pro forma gun control boilerplate, activists and reporters concentrated on just one facet of the story: the pain, anguish, fear and trembling of the “trans community” in Nashville and around the country. That was the real tragedy, they insisted.
NBC News saw fit to put it this way: “Fear pervades trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity.” The same note was struck everywhere in the media, while the ridiculous White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, claimed that the trans community is “under attack.”
We’re supposed to believe that trans people from coast to coast have fled to their safe rooms, cowering behind locked doors and closed curtains as they await the outbreak of the pogrom. Even the killer was fashioned into a tragic figure who, it was argued, had no other outlet for her pain and anger than to shoot up a school. As a bonus, it happened to be a Christian school that the killer had attended, leading to speculation that the experience had somehow traumatized her. And of course, those who “misgendered” Hale were scolded: How dare they use the wrong set of pronouns in reference to a mass murderer?
It was and remains a disgusting display of human behavior—and it shows just how toxic a blight on American society this lunatic ideology of gender has become.
The insanity begins with the fact that as Rich Lowry notes in an article for National Review, the concept of a “trans community” is bogus. In a country with a population of 330 million, trans people represent a tiny fraction of a fraction of that total, scattered all over the landscape, from coast to coast and border to border. What kind of a community is that?
Then there’s the claim that trans people in America are under constant attack by transphobic haters. This is a lie. No doubt one could point to the occasional hate crime directed against a trans person, but that’s nothing compared to the rising tide of anti-Semitic hate crimes and Jew bashing we’ve witnessed over the past few years. More often than not, what trans activists label as transphobia is opposition to the spread of gender ideology, particularly in public schools, and the underhanded schemes to transition children on the sly, without parental consent. But when the “trans community” is told that no, it has nothing to say about the care and nurturing of other people’s children, this is cited as evidence of bigotry and hate.
Indeed, the trans cult has matured into a mania to which everyone and everything must defer. In its name, dissenters and skeptics are bullied and threatened with violence. In its name a mockery is being made of womanhood and feminism—admittedly with the connivance of many feminists. In its name, organized women’s sports are being undermined and effectively abolished. Lea Thompson cheated numerous young female athletes of the achievements and awards they’d worked so hard to earn. But anyone who has the temerity to note that he won all those swim meets because he was a biological male competing against biological women is denounced as a terrible, terrible person. And as those female athletes who’ve complained about the situation—they need to just shut up.
But with the Covenant School shooting, we’ve arrived at an apogee of sorts. It cannot get worse than this: the erasure of six murder victims and the absolution of the killer because the “trans community” insists that its suffering deserves top billing. Sorry, but no. Getting misgendered may hurt your feelings—but as the Covenant School Six would tell you if they could, a bullet in the head hurts a hell of a lot more.
Wow... The Covenant School shooting was a tragedy. No bones about that. Audrey Hale's actions were disgusting, and I feel horible for the parents and loved ones. I hate that they did that. From a statistical standpoint, the likelyhood of being shot in a school shooting by a trans or non-binary person is an outlier combared to a cis white males. This is statistics. The rights reaction was to focus entirely on the the fact that this person was transgender. Is the gun control debate not valid? If it was harder for Audrey Hale to get the guns that they had, would that have not been a good thing? The gun laws in this country are a joke. It is beyond easy to get a gun. I just bought my first in March and it took me 4 days. My background check invloved me self reporting if I had any mental health issues or past arrests. It did not require a safety course. I bought a 9mm Springfield Hellcat (it's awesome by the way), but I just as easily could have turned around and bought AR-15 and walked out the door without any idea how to opperate such a weapon. This debate should about the shooter, AND gun control, but to sit there and say this is a result of this person being trans and make it seem like this is a trend and not an outlier is reporting malpractice at best.