Why Did Transgender Audrey Hale Kill Children?
Anticipating the Narrative Control Machine's attempts to frame Nashville horror
Another mass shooting in America, this one carried out against little kids in a Christian elementary school. The shooter was Audrey Hale, a female who went by masculine pronouns. We don’t have a motive yet, though Hale was reportedly once a student at the school. According to an Instagram message Hale sent to a friend before the attack, Hale saw what she was about to do as a murder-suicide. I’m sure that the Narrative will tell us soon enough that the Christian school brought this child mass murder onto itself by victimizing poor transgendered Audrey. Or maybe it was the fault of Republicans.
You think I’m kidding? Look:
Only hours after those children were slaughtered BY A TRANS PERSON, Newsweek found a way to point the finger at Republicans. Must. Maintain. Narrative. Discipline.
Here’s a clip from the NYTimes report. Consider that we have created a society in which the paper of record pauses in its coverage of a mass killing by a trans person to make sure we don’t misgender the child murderer:
Look, it would be exploitative and unjust to extrapolate from this horrible incident to in any way blame trans people on the whole for it, just as it is wrong to blame all Muslims whenever there’s an act of Islamic terrorism. That said, it is also perfectly justified after an act of Islamic terror to interrogate the event to see if there is some connection between the religion as practiced by the terrorists, and their murderous deed. Similarly, it is important in the Audrey Hale matter to see if her trans status was connected to this attack.
Did she in some sense hate Christians because of her transness? Earlier this month, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a measure banning medical transitioning for children. We have seen the unshirted rage, including calls for murder, that trans protesters and their allies have demonstrated against anyone — TERFs, J.K. Rowling, Posie Parker — who dares to challenge their narrative. I will not be surprised if Audrey Hale’s evil deed was tied to this. Police say they have a “manifesto” that Hale, who attended the school in the mid-2000s for a couple of years, wrote prior to her attack. They must release it. If it puts trans people in a bad light, there will be a lot of pressure to suppress the manifesto, but the public must demand, and demand loudly, that it be released.
Was her transness a manifestation of a deeper mental disorder? Here is the conclusion of a 2019 study funded by the NIH:
Our findings suggest a high prevalence and significantly higher odds of mental disorder diagnoses in the transgender population as compared with the cisgender population using data that are nationally representative of the U.S.
There’s a lot we don’t know now. I’m laying these markers down, though, because I am absolutely certain that because this mass murder was carried out against children by a transgendered person, the Narrative Management Machine will be working overtime to convince all of us that what we see with our own eyes isn’t the truth, and that in the end, Audrey Hale was a victim of Republicans and Christians. In fact, by this time next week, I bet we will be seeing in the media claims that the REAL murderers of those children were GOP politicians.
There are few areas where the media lie more to maintain a Narrative than in reporting on transgenderism. At TAC, I wrote at least twice about how the media/activist/Democratic-politician story about the “epidemic” of trans murders was hogwash. Seriously, read this piece I did in December 2019, going over the details of each trans killing that year claimed by activists. Most of the dead were street prostitutes. They certainly did not deserve to die, but choosing to sell your body for sex as a streetwalker is an extremely risky way to live.
Here’s a piece I did in March 2021, following an NBC News report on the “epidemic” that year of murders of trans people. NBC reported on a “266 percent increase” in the number of trans murders over the same period last year. Gosh, that sounds horrible! Do you know what the actual numbers were, though? By March 2020, before the Martyrdom of George Floyd, three trans people in this country of 330 million had been murdered that year. By March 2021, amid a sharp rise in homicide nationwide, eleven trans people had been killed. Of those eleven, only two appear to have been clear cases of trans people killed for being trans. The others died in robberies, fights with their lovers, at the hands of a mentally ill relative, and so forth.
We are meant to think that conservative white males are prowling the streets eager to find trans people to beat up, even kill. Last week, Steve Sailer posted a chart listing all the murders of trans people in 2020, a year in which they surged, and the ethnicities of the killers. Of all the killings in which a perpetrator was identified (19 out of 40), not one of the killers was a white person. Twelve were black, and seven Latino — not exactly the kind of men who vote for white Republicans. Sorry, Narrative!
What makes me vigilant about this Nashville situation is that for a long time now, we have been seeing trans activists call for the murder of opponents, including TERFs (trans-exclusive radical feminists, or radical feminists who insist that trans women are not women). In Paris in 2021, for example, a mob of trans activists attacked a feminist protest march. This graffiti says, “Save one trans, kill one TERF.”
We saw just last week how the pro-trans mob in New Zealand physically assaulted feminist campaigner Posie Parker, who was lucky to escape its bacchic frenzy. Look at this, would you!
If — if — Audrey Hale’s manifesto reveals a political motive behind her savagery, then we absolutely must confront the violence inherent to the politically engaged trans community. We must also confront the mental instability that is also inseparable from the trans condition, even if you don’t consider trans to be a mental illness. I bring all this up now, before we know the full details of Hale’s motives, simply because I have been watching the Narrative Machine swing into operation for years now, and I am completely certain that the media will not wish for any of us to see certain facts, ask particular questions, or reach conclusions that counter the dogma that Trans People Are Always Victims, And Christians/Conservatives Are Always Victimizers.
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