[PJ] Following the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville on Monday, there were concerns regarding a possible connection between the shooter and the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN), which had called for a "Day of Vengeance" this Saturday. Though at the moment, there is no known link between the shooter and the group.
Some had speculated that TRAN might tone down their rhetoric or even cancel their planned "Day of Vengeance" in light of the tragic events. But instead, the group is escalating their calls for violence and expressing support for the shooter, Audrey Hale.
In a statement for the media released Monday, the group neither confirmed nor denied knowing Audrey Hale, but suggested she was driven to commit her crimes because of an existential threat against transgender people, the so-called "trans genocide."
"We do not claim to know the individual or have access to their inner thoughts and feelings," the group’s statement read. "We do know that life for transgender people is very difficult, and made more difficult in the preceding months by a virtual avalanche of anti-trans legislation, and public callouts by Right Wing personalities and political figures for nothing less than the genocidal eradication of trans people from society." |