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Episode: How the Horrible Tennessee Shootings are Fueling Anti-Trans Rhetoric & Hatred
Description: Americans sat back in horror on March 27, 2023, as news of a mass shooting hit the airwaves and social media. The shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a private Presbyterian parochial school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Six people—three children and three staff members—were killed.
First reports indicated that the shooter was "a woman."Â Further investigation indicates that the shooter was trans or non-binary.Â
While most sane people are reacting to America's seemingly inability to solve the rising gun violence crisis, right wing voices from Marjorie Taylor Greene, to the New York Post, to Tucker Carlson are us...