‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ protest to go ahead on Saturday despite Nashville school shooting
A group of activists will stage a ‘Trans Revenge Day’ rally in front of the Supreme Court on Saturday. warning against ‘astronomical amounts of world hate’ and following the horrific shooting in Nashville that left seven dead on Monday.
The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) will host the event in Washington DC from March 31 to April 2, beginning Friday and marching to the Supreme Court at 11am Saturday. On their website, they cite bills banning gender-affirming care and the political climate as reasons for the demonstration.
But commentators are up in arms over the decision to go ahead with the protest, as police say they are looking into the role of Nashville shooter Audrey Hale’s gender identity and a sense of ‘resentment‘ which may have inspired the attack on the shooter’s former Christian school.
Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday demanded that her Twitter account be restored after features were limited for violating the rules.
She saying: ‘My congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, which is organizing a call for violence called “Trans Revenge Day.”
‘The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter. Restore my account immediately.’
School shooter Audrey Hale was shot by police after killing three children and three staff members in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday. The reason is unknown, although police are investigating the alleged feeling of ‘resentment’ associated with having to go to the private Christian school.
Victims Evelyn Dieckhaus (L) and William Kinney (R) were shot dead, both aged nine.
Ian Miles Cheong wrote that ‘Twitter is now cracking down on those promoting the “Trans Day of Revenge” poster, which is mostly made up of trans militants calling for a day of mass violence.”
Twitter’s director of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, answered: ‘Correct. We had to automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets/retweets from this poster.
“We do not support tweets that incite violence, regardless of who posts them.
‘”Revenge” does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or supporting peaceful protests is fine.’
TRAN has stated on its website: ‘This protest is about unity, not inciting violence. TRAN does not encourage violence and is not welcome at this event.’
It is not clear if Hale was associated with the movement.
Audrey Elizabeth Hale opened fire at The Covenant School, shooting and killing six people on Monday.
The shooter was armed with two assault rifles and a pistol.
They killed three children, the School Director, 60, a custodian and a substitute teacher, both 61.
The victims Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney were nine years old.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo shot and killed Hale on the second floor of the school.
Police are investigating possible motives for the attack.
MNPD Police Chief John Drake said “resentment” at having to go to school may have played a role in the shooting, but also that Hale “targeted random students at the school … bullets fired.”
Drake added that officials believe “that [Hale] he identifies as trans, but we’re still in the initial investigation into all of that and whether he actually played a role in this incident.
Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized the decision to go ahead with the demonstration on Twitter.
Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety confirmed that the site had removed the promotion of the protests.
Hallie Scruggs (photo left, right) and Mike Hill (right) were shot and killed by Hale in the attack.
Cynthia Peak (photo left, right) and school principal Katherine Koonce (right) were killed in the shooting.
The upcoming protest was initially going to be called Trans Visibility Day, but was renamed “revenge means fighting hard,” the group said. saying.
“It is our battle cry to declare to the world that we, the transgender/non-binary communities, will not be silenced or eradicated.”
Distancing themselves from Hale, the group posted a statement on their website prior to the event: “We Tsukuru [co-founder]Our Rights DC and TRAN are appalled by the violence committed at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023.
“We grieve for Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill, and with their loved ones.
‘We also reject any connection between that horrible event and the departures.
Vengeance means fighting back vehemently. We are fighting false narratives, criminalization and the eradication of our existence.’
TRAN also said that due to the ‘hate received’ they had disabled their contact form.