In reality, the shooter — who killed 5 people with an AR-15 style rifle over the weekend — was a cis man and Tucker Carlson fan.
wrote that Asa Khalif of the Philadelphia district attorney’s LGBTQIA advisory committee used a Wednesday press conference to criticize the false narrative being spread, stating, “The language that is spewed out by the conservative press is violent and is dangerous and is targeting trans women of color.” Khalif stated that Carriker identified as male and added that, in spite of right-wing messaging that is attempting to demonize the community, trans people are “the most vulnerable to violence.
“We will not allow conservative bigots to use that type of language to attack trans people,” Khalif continued. “This is about someone who used violence to hurt and harm our city and our community, and I’m sure they will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. But we will not allow trans women, and particularly trans women of color, to be the scapegoats of bigots.”
Unsurprisingly, the right-wing discourse cherry-picked from Carriker’s social media posts, ignoring ones where he praised Tucker Carlson, complained about liberals' stance on guns, and bragged about gun purchases, and that reportsabout Tennessee’s anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-drag policies, Tennessee musician Julien Baker of Boygenius weighed in on the false narratives around the Covenant shooting: “Where are we making it attached to someone's identity in any other instance like this? Like with...
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