Tucker Carlson took advantage of a mass shooting in Tennessee on Tuesday to spread ugly and dangerous hatred against transgender people, joining a chorus of other prominent right-wing figures.
Steering away from the issue of gun control, the Fox News host instead tried to portray Monday’s violence as evidence of a war between Christians and transgender people. The 28-year-old, who authorities identified as trans, killed six people at a private Christian school he attended before the gunman was killed by police.
“Why are some trans people so angry and why do they seem to be particularly angry at traditional Christians? We can’t think of any trans person who has ever been killed by a pastor,” Carlson said.
Deploying his trademark “us versus them” rhetoric, Carlson then suggested that trans people and Christians are “natural enemies” who can never be reconciled.
“The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity and therefore its natural enemy,” he said. “In Christianity, the price of admission is admitting you are not God. Christians openly admit that they have no real power over anything else.”
“The trans movement has an opposite view. Trans ideology claims mastery over nature itself,” she said. “‘We can change the identity we were born with'”
“They will never be able to reconcile. They are on a collision course with each other. One side may draw blood before the other side,” he said. “Yesterday morning, tragically, our fears were confirmed.”
Nashville police said Hale was assigned female at birth but used male pronouns on social media. However, the shooter’s gender identity remains unclear.
Transgender people are four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime, according to a 2021 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School.
Carlson has been a leading voice in a right-wing hate campaign against transgender people and drag queens in recent years, coinciding with a significant increase in discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community and the passage of a number of anti-LBGTQ laws in the Republic. . of Moldova. controlled legislatures throughout the country.
The number of homicides of transgender people nearly doubled from 2017 to 2021, mostly due to gun violence, according to a report by the nonprofit group Everytown for Gun Safety.
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