Hours after a trans killer’s Nashville massacre, radical activists exploited the horror to push their extreme ideology. But now Americans are pushing back… in a raging cultural war that’s only just begun

It was just the latest in a series of harrowing attacks that have become all too sickeningly familiar to millions of Americans: a young outcast wandering school corridors armed with assault-style rifles, innocent children and teachers shot dead in their classrooms, bodycams of brave police taking down the deranged threat in a hail of gunfire.

In Nashville last week, surveillance video of 28-year-old Audrey Hale showed her blasting her way through the school’s glass doors. In under 10 minutes, she had killed the school principal, custodian, a beloved substitute teacher, and three 9-year-old children. Evelyn Dieckhaus, a blond-haired third grader, was gunned down as she tried to pull a fire alarm to warn her classmates. William Kinney, 9, was looking forward to starting baseball in the spring. Hallie Scruggs, 9, was the school pastor’s daughter.

It was the 19th school shooting this year alone.

This time, there was a particular distinction. The killer was female, and had recently identified as a transgender male.

Days after the massacre, Hale’s motive still remains a mystery. But a picture of her life is emerging. Hale had been presenting socially as a male during her last months and was reportedly being seen by a medical professional for an ’emotional disorder.’

It’s still unknown whether she ever received hormone treatments or had begun a medical gender transition, or if her transitioning had any bearing on her actions whatsoever – all we know for sure is that Hale’s devoutly Christian parents ‘couldn’t accept’ that she was transgender, and that she had once been a student at the Covenant School.

Yet regardless of Hale’s lethal motivation, it seems extraordinary that in the hours immediately following the horror, transgender activists and advocates would choose to posture on social media and talk of ‘vengeance’.

Days after the massacre, Hale’s (above) motive still remains a mystery. But a picture of her life is emerging. Hale had been presenting socially as a male during her last months and was reportedly being seen by a medical professional for an ’emotional disorder.’ 

Prominent trans activist Eli Erlick labelled the Covenant School as a ‘right-wing institution,’ which ‘abused Audrey Hale and many others.’ Erlick’s accusations did not include any evidence of Hale’s abuse, which, if it exists, has still not emerged.

The press secretary for Arizona’s Democratic governor tweeted an image of a woman pointing two handguns alongside the caption: ‘Us when we see transphobes.’ She has since resigned.

Meanwhile, trans advocacy group The Trans Resistance Network released a statement to its followers, recognizing the ‘tragedy’ of six innocent people losing their lives, but also ominously including the phrase: ‘Hate has consequences.’

And a group that calling itself the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) initially announced that despite the shooting, it would go ahead with a pre-planned ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ demonstration outside the Supreme Court on Saturday. The event has since been canceled after organizers cited warnings of a ‘credible threat to life and safety’. 

Trans activists point out that the phrase ‘trans day of vengeance’ is meme that has circulated for years in the trans community and, they claim, it does not refer to any specific call for violence. Though there was little effort to soften the obviously violent connotations of their message in light of the Nashville slaughter.

And seemingly exposing their views on political violence, the TRAN’s website featured a quote from gay and transgender rights activists Sylvia Rivera, who cheered on violent acts during the Stonewall Riots of 1969.

The quote read: ‘I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, ‘My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here?”

Evelyn Dieckhaus, a blond-haired third grader, was gunned down as she tried to pull a fire alarm to warn her classmates.

William Kinney, 9, was looking forward to starting baseball in the spring.

Hallie Scruggs (above, center), 9, was the school pastor’s daughter. 

At a time when Americans needed time to grieve another shooting tragedy, this messages exemplified the vicious debate over transgenderism that is dividing homes, families, state legislatures and likely, eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court.

Often activists pour vitriol on those who question whether minors should have access to life-changing hormones and surgeries. They insist denying this ‘care’ is akin to a death sentence because it will lead to suicide.

Such positions are no longer confined to extremist margins. Many have been adopted – to one extent or another – by much of mainstream liberal America, including the White House itself.

President Joe Biden called Florida state legislation restricting gender-affirming care ‘close to sinful,’ and has hosted controversial trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney at the White House.

On Thursday, President Biden released a video marking International Transgender Day of Visibility. In it, he spoke directly to the parents, saying, ‘affirming your child’s identity is one of the most powerful things you can do to keep them safe and healthy.’

Collectively, it is devastating proof that few issues are polarizing America to such a troubling extent.

Because while an overwhelming majority of Americans want to treat the transgender community with respect, many also worry vulnerable people, particularly children, are making irreversible, life-changing decisions very early in their young lives.

While a majority of Americans still oppose laws that criminalize access to ‘gender transition-related medical care for minors,’ 43 percent now support them. That is a remarkable 15-point increase since April 2021, when only 28 percent said they supported such measures.

Meanwhile many European countries have significantly re-evaluated gender-affirming care.

Sweden and France have stopped gender-affirming treatments for all children under 18. England and Finland have significantly restricted the practice. And Italy and Ireland are rethinking their medical guidelines, as have many Republican-led U.S. states.

Florida is one of at least 10 states including Arizona, Utah and Tennessee which have banned gender-affirming care for minors. Legislators in at least 20 other states are currently weighing similar measures.

Prominent trans activist Eli Erlick (above) labelled the Covenant School as a ‘right-wing institution,’ which ‘abused Audrey Hale and many others.’ Erlick’s accusations did not include any evidence of Hale’s abuse, which, if it exists, has still not emerged.

(Above) Activists in Tennessee State Capitol on March 30

And much of this pushback has been generated by voices that are heard less in the debate: medical whistleblowers and detransitioners – those who have undergone a gender transition and come to regret it.

Last month, a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital came forward to become one of the most significant U.S. whistleblowers to date.

Jamie Reed, who describes herself as a ‘queer woman… politically to the left of Bernie Sanders,’ wrote in The Free Press that the gender clinic where she worked was, ‘permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.’

Reed was responsible for patient intake between 2018 and November 2022. According to her, girls were prescribed drugs without sufficient evaluation to determine whether they truly needed them.

Additionally, Reed claimed that many girls claimed to suffer from other conditions that doctors dismissed as the results of ‘social contagion,’ meaning that the disorders were imagined.

Reed has since been branded as a transphobe by gender activists who claim she is lying about her experience at the medical center and is being used by the ‘far-right.’

Despite these growing concerns, many trans activists claim that restrictions to gender-affirming care are the real danger.

Dr Katherine Imborek, a family medicine doctor with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics says such treatments are ‘a medical necessity, like providing insulin to a person with diabetes.’

Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director at DignityUSA, a group that focuses on LGBTQ+ rights told DailyMail.com that policies banning gender-affirming are ‘victimizing children with gender dysphoria and putting them at risk for depression, failure in school, and suicide.’

Trans activists point out that the phrase ‘trans day of vengeance’ is meme that has circulated for years in the trans community and, they claim, it does not refer to any specific call for violence.

Regardless of Hale’s lethal motivation, it seems extraordinary that in the hours immediately following the horror, transgender activists would choose to posture on social media and talk of ‘vengeance’.

That has proven to be a potent narrative. No parent wants to weigh the risk of a child killing themselves. But this claim is also being re-examined.

Dr Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist who treats gender questioning minors, is a transgender woman herself. She resigned from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) after voicing concerns about the organization’s approach.

She says activists are guilty of ‘an egregious misuse of information.’

‘It’s a talking point that has been misused,’ Dr Anderson said. ‘[The research] shows suicide rates consistent with minors with other mental health issues.’

Trans activists and the progressive movement have continued to drill down their narrative, even as detransitioners like Chloe Cole, 19, emerge as strong opponents of gender-affirming care for minors.

She says she was coerced into taking puberty blockers and having both breasts surgically removed when she was 15 years old.

‘The gender clinic presented my parents with the classic false dichotomy: Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?’ Cole told the Catholic News Agency.

In 2022, Cole announced plans to sue her doctors, shockingly comparing their work to ‘Nazi-era experiments.’

As the true cost of the last years of federally unregulated gender-affirming care of minors start becoming impossible to ignore, the vicious battle regarding transgender rights is most likely going to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

And as parents across the country seemingly begin internalizing what the trans activists’ rhetoric really means for the future of their children and country, there is a real sense this horrific cultural war hasn’t reached its peak: disturbingly, it may only just the beginning.

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