'Trans Day of Vengeance' Date, Details as Activists Say 'We Choose to Fight'
Supreme Court and will protest the various bills in numerous states limiting gender-affirming health care.On Monday, Nashville police said Hale, 28, had broken into the Covenant School, a private Christian institution they had previously attended, with three guns including two assault weapons, and went on to fatally shoot three nine-year-old children and three members of staff.Officers attended after receiving a call at about 10:13 a.m.
local time (11:13 a.m. ET) and encountered the assailant on the second floor of the school, where they fatally shot Hale.Police said that they had since recovered documentation at Hale's house that showed the attack "was calculated and planned." Nashville Chief of Police John Drake told reporters that officers were investigating whether Hale's gender identity was related to the crime, but couldn't comment on a motive.Conservative commentators, however, pointed to Hale's gender identity and that of three other mass shooters who have identified as transgender or non-binary in the past five years as a sign that the transgender movement "is radicalizing activists into terrorists." Others have noted that, as a proportion of mass shooters, those identifying as transgender appear to be statistically insignificant.Those behind the Trans Day of Vengeance were specifically mentioned in recent stories by The Gateway Pundit and the Daily Mail, which claimed that one chapter in Virginia had raised money for firearms and self-defense training.
They also noted apparent instances of transgender activists posing with guns on social media.The group is going ahead with its April 1 rally in the capital—just five days after the deadly attack—arguing on its website that the protest "is about unity, not.
