On September 4, 14-year-old suspect Colt Gray allegedly killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in what has become Georgia’s deadliest school shooting. Continuing a familiar trend, fringe right-wing accounts almost immediately began claiming without evidence that the shooter was trans.  Prominent right-wing media influencers followed suit, apparently misinterpreting a CNN report about the suspect’s online activity to baselessly claim that the suspect was “another trans shooter” and “motivated by trans activism."
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Attacking LGBT people is how they virtue signal to other hateful people.

    I think it’s worse than that. They are motivated by real hatred and have repeatedly called for the “eradication” of trans people. They must not be given a chance to show us how serious they are about that.