Trans Tennesseans fear violent backlash as trans identity blamed for school shooting

Transgender people in Tennessee fear retaliatory violence after Nashville police said that a recent school shooter may have been trans.

After Audrey Hale allegedly killed three children and three adults in a Monday shooting at the Covenant School, a private Presbyterian elementary school in Nashville, local police said they thought that Hale was transgender. Police didn’t explain how they reached this conclusion, but Hale identified as female while attending the school around age 10 and used male pronouns on their personal LinkedIn profile up until their death.

Aislinn Bailey, the acting president of the Johnson City-based trans-led advocacy group Tri-Cities Transgender, criticized police for…

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