Joseph Giacalone, former police officer and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, believes authorities are not releasing the manifesto because there may be "Something in there that is truly damaging for the transgender community." Does the manifesto explode the narrative that the Left wants so desperately to maintain: that trans people are the victims of genocidal bigotry and not a threat to anyone? The narrative that the real domestic terror threat in America is Trump supporters and Tucker Carlson viewers?
The shooting came just ahead of something alarmingly called a "Trans Day of Vengeance" set for April 1st and took place in a climate of media-driven, hysterical fear-mongering about what is outrageously being labeled a right-wing "Genocide" of the so-called trans community.
This has led many to believe that violence committed by or threatened by trans individuals is justifiable "Vengeance" and self-defense.
Something called the Trans Resistance Network in Massachusetts, for example, released a statement on the Covenant school shooting stating that life for "Transgender people is very difficult" due to "Anti-trans legislation" and "Right wing personalities." The group also painted a sympathetic picture of shooter Hale as a "Complex tragedy" who felt she "Had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others."
NBC ran a story with the headline, "Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity: 'We were already fearing for our lives. Now, it's even worse.'" As Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway put it on Twitter, "Gee, you'd think heavily armed Christian children were hunting down trans activists instead of the other way around."
The day after the shooting, the press secretary for the Governor of Arizona tweeted an image from a movie in which a character is wielding a pair of handguns, along with the message, "Us when we see transphobes." There's no other way to read that tweet than as support for the actions of child-killer Hale, and as a threat that others who perceive themselves to be trans are prepared to shoot anyone they deem bigots.
Then came the Nashville school shooting, and police recently arrested a trans man in Colorado named William Whitworth, who goes by the name Lily.
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