The Far Right Is Exploiting the Nashville Tragedy to Promote Transphobia
As soon as it became known that the shooter may have identified as trans, the right-wing media outrage ecosystem went to work.
March 28, 2023
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Candace Owens Uses Alleged Manifesto From Nashville Shooter to Be Transphobic
""We have to look evil in the face if we want to defeat it," the right-wing commentator says of the case, in which the shooter is said to have been transgender.
November 7, 2023
Lesbian educator in California says trustee called her a ‘witch’ in an ‘LGBTQ coven’
Rose Tagnesi claims she was sexually harassed and demoted in retaliation for her opposition to the conservative San Diego County school board’s “anti-LGBTQ agenda.”
September 18, 2024
Maryland Man Admits Sending Terror Threats to LGBTQ+ Group, Allies
The man deliberated targeted supporters of the trans community.
September 16, 2023
Tennessee Home of Progressive Journalist Shot at While Family Slept
Justin Kanew has reported on the state's Republican party and broke the news of the lieutenant governor's comments on a young gay man's Instagram page.
April 7, 2023
Tennessee parents beg judge not to release school shooter’s journals publicly
Whereas media organizations are advocating for the public’s right to know, families of victims and others are urging the judge not to release Audrey Hale’s writings.
April 29, 2024
Nashville Police Say School Shooter Was Transgender
Three children and three adults were killed in the gunfire.
March 27, 2023
Would-Be Shooter's Sister's Tip-Off Stops Potential Colorado Mass Shooting
Police credit the sister of a transgender 19-year-old who wrote a chilling screed outlining plans for a mass shooting for tipping off authorities and preventing a possible tragedy.
April 8, 2023
'We'll Cut Your Throats': Man Charged With Threatening Human Rights Campaign
Adam Michael Nettina appears to have been inspired by the recent Nashville school shooting.
April 4, 2023
Mike Johnson, RFK Jr. attack trans people in wake of Minneapolis school shooting
They are doing so even though the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men.
August 29, 2025
Heritage Foundation uses false data to smear trans people as school shooters
The far-right think tank claims half of school shootings are by trans people. That's not true.
September 29, 2025
Maryland man sentenced for threats to America's largest LGBTQ+ rights group and several lawmakers
Adam Michael Nettina left violent messages threatening to shoot and cut the throats of the targets.
January 13, 2024
Right-Wingers Push Lie That Philly Shooting Suspect Was Trans BLM Supporter
Philadelphia officials say the accused shooter, Kimbrady Carriker, was a cisgender man. And he was more interested in gun rights than Black Lives Matter.
July 5, 2023
Reflections of a Trans Minister on What’s Happening in Nashville
"Representative democracy can only work if we allow it to provide a platform for the voiceless — including youth who are often ignored due to their ineligibility to vote."
April 9, 2023
Expelled teen parents threaten to kick him out
James Barnett, the 18-year-old senior forced to leave a Texas Christian high school last month, says his parents will eject him from their house if he tells his story on television.
January 10, 2005
Right-wing influencers seem happy that Iowa school shooter might be LGBTQ+
Without confirmation about his gender identity or sexual orientation, anti-LGBTQ+ extremists focused on pushing the false notion that transgender and nonbinary people are often mass shooters — they aren't.
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January 4, 2024
Drag Doesn't Kill People — Guns Do
Tennessee legislators are passing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation while loosening gun laws, ignoring the real cause of violence.
June 29, 2023
Montana Republicans Attempt to Censure Trans Lawmaker for 'Blood on Your Hands' Remark
Rep. Zooey Zephyr made the comment as legislators debated amendments to a bill banning gender-affirming care for trans minors.
April 19, 2023
Transgender Archaeologist Fired From Federal Job After Posing With AR-15
She says there’s a double standard, claiming that if she were a right-wing gun enthusiast, her video would be considered a First Amendment expression of a Second Amendment right.
April 28, 2023
Teacher: Mistreatment Over Gay Son Caused Depression, Then Dismissal
Ostracism by colleagues at the Christian school caused the teacher anxiety and depression, and then the school failed to renew her contract, she says in a lawsuit.
July 6, 2012
Canada's High Court Favors LGBT Equality Over Anti-LGBT Religion
The court ruled that legal societies deny accreditation to a law school that promoted homophobic religious dogma.
June 16, 2018