Editor’s note: On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee when a 28-year-old former student of the school killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Tennessee history.
The full manifesto of the Nashville shooter Audrey Hale was released today. I read it so you don’t have to. Here’s my topline analysis:
Audrey was a lesbian with autism who became fixated on gender and convinced herself that she liked girls because she was really a boy.
Autistic kids are often most susceptible to gender ideology and are actively told that they are trans and queer when they’re really just gay.
She blames her parents for affirming her identity as a boy and was very depressed and angry at not being able to find people to love her or girls to have sex with. She convinced herself that if she just had a penis, things would be different.
She felt ignored by the world and so she wanted to die in a way she could not be ignored……
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