President Joe Biden's White House celebrated Transgender Remembrance Day on Monday by lamenting the deaths of 26 transgender-identifying Americans, at least three of whom were shot and killed while committing a crime or tangling with law enforcement.
The White House paints the 26 transgender people as victims whose deaths were tragedies linked to their gender identity.
Several family members of the deceased even called the deaths the result of "Targeted shootings," but none of their accounts or the reports on their loved one's death produced a direct link between the fatal violence and the transphobia the White House claims has gripped the nation.
A district attorney ruled in October that the members of law enforcement who shot Teran would not face criminal charges because "The use of lethal force by the Georgia State Patrol was objectively reasonable under the circumstances of this case." Banko Brown, a 24-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a security guard at a San Francisco Walgreens in April after allegedly shoplifting, also made the White House's list.
Another transgender-identifying person honored by the White House, 28-year-old DéVonnie J'Rae Johnson, was similarly shot and killed by a security guard in August after he walked into a Los Angeles store wielding a fire extinguisher and screwdriver.
Notably missing from the White House's list was Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man who shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school in Nashville earlier this year before local police took her out.
Just two days after the March 27 shooting, Jean-Pierre dared to mount the podium in the White House briefing room and claim transgender Americans are "Under attack right now." Biden not only personally refused to make a trip to visit the families of the shooting victims, but he ended the week of the tragedy by celebrating a "Transgender Day of Visibility." The FBI and Department of Justice also refused to call the tragedy an anti-white and anti-Christian hate crime even though Hale's racist manifesto suggested otherwise.
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