Trans-Militants and Their Supporters

In March 27, Aubrey Hale, a 28-year-old female who identified as a man, opened fire on students and staff at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. Hale murdered three children and three adults, before being shot dead by responding law enforcement officers. Nashville Police confirmed that Hale’s transgenderism was believed to have played a role in her motivation for the attack, but specifics are scarce. Police reportedly have a manifesto found in Hale’s vehicle at the scene, but it has not been made available to the public.

Tennessee has been in the news in recent months following the passage of legislation intended to prevent the chemical or surgical transition of minors and to prohibit sexually explicit drag show performances before audiences of children. In response to such legislative efforts taking place nationwide, a Trans Day of Vengeance was being promoted by a variety of militant trans liberation groups and known Antifa groups on social media and included efforts to raise funds for armed training to transgender individuals. The attack took place only days prior to the Trans Day of Vengeance, which itself was scheduled to coincide with a “Trans Day of Visibility.” Terrorists will sometimes schedule attacks to coincide with dates ideologically significant to their cause, so it is prudent that any potential linkage between the dates should be investigated.

There has been a growing militancy within the trans-liberation movement and an alignment with Antifa and similar armed anarcho-communist groups.

Black-garbed Antifa, wearing body armor and armed with AR-15 or AK-model rifles, now routinely appear at protests and counter-protests related to the drag show and transition debate. Sharp-eyed observers might have noticed these individuals wearing patches, flags, and stickers displaying the transgender flag overlaid with an AR- or AK- style rifle.

Other iconography includes t-shirts like the one worn by Minnesota’s Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan featuring a dagger with the command “Protect Trans Kids,” although from what they should be protected is not explained. Another popular shirt displays various types of firearms before issuing the threat “trans rights . . . or else.” Such materials have been increasingly mainstreamed and are even available for purchase on Amazon.com.

A simple online search of the term TERF (which stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, meaning a woman typically on the Left who opposes men presenting as women and taking advantage of rights or advantages won by feminists) provides nearly endless examples of transgender exhortations to vivid or stylized violence.

As journalist Andy Ngo has noted, a statistically significant number of transgender individuals have affiliated with (primarily left-wing) extremism. Yet it is not immediately obvious why this should be so.

What is the link between transgenderism and the promotion of Antifa-style violence? Why do the rifle and the trans flag go together?

To begin with, dispense with the notion that this trend has anything to do with the Second Amendment. Every American citizen regardless of gender or sexual preference has the inalienable right granted by our Creator and enshrined in the Bill of Rights to bear arms in their own defense. But these are not the rights being demanded with the elliptical “or else.”

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