“Trans Day of Vengeance” canceled in wake of Covenant School shooting
But organizers cite “threats” rather than respect for the victims of the attack
A “Trans Day of Vengeance” protest that was set to take place Saturday was canceled after organizers say the event received threats.
“We received a possible active shooter threat,” organizers told BuzzFeed News. “To protect trans life, which is our ultimate goal, we will be canceling.”
Although organizers claimed the event was non-violent and simply sought unity and advocacy for transgender people, Twitter began removing posts that mentioned the event earlier this week, especially in light of Monday’s school shooting in Nashville.
The “Day of Vengeance” had drawn sharp criticism for moving forward originally after a woman who identified as transgender killed six people, including three 9-year-olds she’d chosen at random, at the private Christian elementary school.
The rally had been planned for Washington D.C. on Saturday by the group Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN), which insists that “This protest is about unity, not inciting violence.”
“TRAN does not encourage violence and it is not welcome at this event,” the group had said in a statement, according to the New York Post.
“Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence. We are fighting against false narratives, criminalization and eradication of our existence,” it added.
However, Twitter began removing tweets about the rally — including those from critics who drew attention to the vengeful name in the wake of the shooting against the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday by a transgender perpetrator who killed three adults and three children before being shot herself by police.
“We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest,” said Twitter head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin.
Covenant shooter Audrey Hale, a former student who identified as a man, may have been motivated by “resentment,” police say.
Link: “Trans Day of Vengeance” Canceled, But Not Over Covenant Shooting
A now-former staffer to Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has resigned after tweeting out a gif indicating her support for murdering “transphobes” after a deadly school shooting in Nashville.
In fact, the tweet came just hours after the attack on a Christian school in which a transgender person killed six, including three 9-year-olds.
Josselyn Berry, Hobbs’ spokesperson, posted a gif from the movie “Gloria” showing actress Gena Rowlands wielding two pistols.
Berry captioned the gif, "Us when we see transphobes."
She later resigned from the Hobbs administration, which subsequently sought to distance itself from her tweet.
"The post by the press secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration,” Hobbs said in a statement, according to WND.
Link: Katie Hobbs’ Staffer Shares Gif Supporting Murder of “Transphobes”
A study has estimated that 26 million people suffered injuries after taking the COVID-19 vaccine in 2022, causing nearly $50 million in damages to the economy.
The co-founder of the firm behind the study warned on Twitter that its estimates were “conservative.”
The Vaccine Damage Project was published by the investment firm Phinance Technologies and sought to study “the direct impact from the mass Covid-19 inoculations on individuals at a population level.”
The human cost of the vaccine was estimated at 26.6 million injuries, 1.36 million disabilities, and roughly 310,000 excess deaths, The Epoch Times notes.
“Numbers conservative,” Phinance co-founder Edward Dowd warned in a tweet.
He explained that the study’s damage estimates do not include factors such as damage caused by employees who are present at work but reduced in their output or capacity.
The study’s estimates also excluded damage caused by employees who bear the burden of co-workers who have been put out of work or any impact caused to the supply chain by vaccine-injured workers.
Its authors acknowledge that while a strong correlation does not always equal causation, “in the absence of other explanatory factors, and strong medical evidence of the vaccines causing injuries and deaths, one must consider the relationship seriously.”