Anti-trans sentiment follows Nashville shooting as some conservatives focus on shooter's identity

Mainstream Press Swerve and Dodge Regarding Nashville Shooter as Activists and Politicians Spar on Transgender Issues

News outlets have been tiptoeing around the subject of the shooter’s gender.

Legacy Media Struggle to Characterize Trans Shooter’s Sex

Mainstream media outlets struggled to describe the sex of the mass shooter who claimed six lives at a private Christian grade school in Nashville.

Media outlets backpedal after being accused of ‘misgendering’ school shooter

A squabble over "misgendering" offered a surreal sideline to the horrific Nashville Christian school massacre as activists called out news outlets scrambling to keep up with the suspect's preferred pronouns.

NBC News pummeled for suggesting Tennessee's trans community is in fear due to 'focus' on Nashville shooter

NBC News faced backlash on social media for a report suggesting the real victim following the Nashville mass shooting is "Tennessee's trans community."

NBC Out: 'Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community'

The Far Right Is Exploiting the Nashville Tragedy to Promote Transphobia

As soon as it became known that the shooter may have identified as trans, the right-wing media outrage ecosystem went to work.