Following the tragic shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, which left six dead, including three children, thought leaders and pundits on the right have wasted no time capitalizing on the fact that the shooter was transgender. Politicians like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., (whose Twitter count was restricted after she repeatedly shared anti-trans messaging) and prominent conservative anchors on Fox News have contributed to rhetoric that dubs the Tennessee shooting an act of “trans terrorism” — a hashtag that went viral in far-right circles almost immediately after police identified the shooter as trans.
On Tuesday night, much of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show was a deeply disturbing diatribe targeting trans people, painting them as terroristic anti-Christs, afforded special privileges by the elite. “The people in charge despise working-class whites, but they venerate the trans community,” Carlson said.
Carlson is wrong; if there is one measure that would curb rampant gun deaths in this country, it would be making it more difficult t.o obtain assault-style weapons
“The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity, and therefore its natural enemy,” he continued, echoing violent and fascistic ideologies, like crypto- and neofascism. “In Christianity, the price of admission is admitting that you’re not God. Christians openly concede that they have no real power over anything, and for that matter, very little personal virtue. … The trans movement takes the opposite view. Trans ideology claims dominion over nature itself. ‘We can change the identity we were born with,’ they will tell you with wild-eyed certainty. Christians can never agree with the statement because these are powers they believe God alone possesses.” He concluded the segment with a warning for Americans about the dangers of the so-called trans movement: “Yesterday’s massacre did not happen because of lax gun laws. Yesterday’s massacre happened…
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