What is the Trans Resistance Network after it defends transgender Audrey Hale Nashville Covenant School shooter

What is the Trans Resistance Network after it defends transgender Audrey Hale Nashville Covenant School shooter

A radical transgender activist group called the Trans Resistance Network (TRN) is allegedly claiming that an “avalanche” of anti-trans laws and attitudes instigated the Nashville school shooter to kill six people, find out more about the organization below.

The Trans Resistance Network issued an offensive statement following the Nashville school shooting, which left a lot of people angered.

What is the Trans Resistance Network after it defends transgender Audrey Hale Nashville Covenant School shooter on Twitter

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According to the radical group, the transgender gunman reportedly carried out the shooting because she felt like there was no other effective way of being noticed other than by killing people at the private Presbyterian school.

Transgender gunman shoots and kills six people

A transgender person Audrey Hale on Monday shot and killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at Nashville’s Covenant School. Following the gruesome incident, the group went on to described the mass murder as a double “tragedy”.

The group wrote that the first tragedy was the murders of the children and adults within the school. While expressed their sincere condolences and prayers to the families of the victims, the group also stated that the second tragedy was directed toward Audrey Hale’s death.

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TRN wrote:

There is nothing we can offer that will comfort the hurt, or ease the sorrow. We mourn with you. The second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Audrey Hale, who felt [she] had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others, and by consequence, [herself],” they continued.”

The Trans Resistance Network TRN

The Trans Resistance Network (TRN) describes itself as a group of professional organizers, devoted supporters, and concerned organizations, who are working together for the long-term survival and well-being of gender-diverse people in an increasingly challenging setting.

Their official description on the website reads:

The Trans Resistance Network (TRN) was formed to ensure the survival of gender diverse people and families through strategic coordination of community defense, mutual-aid, and alternative systems of gender-affirming care”.

According to reports, the shooter, identified as Audrey Hale was a 28-year-old transgender and former student of Covenant School. The shooter allegedly compiled a “manifesto” before carried out the attack on the school on Monday morning. However, police were quick to intervene as they shot her within 15 minutes of the incident, killing her.

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