Republican members of Congress and prominent far-right voices have seized on the fatal shooting of three nine-year-old children and three school employees in Nashville to promote legislation targeting transgender people and bans on gender-affirming healthcare.
Law enforcement officials have identified the suspected assailant as a trans man, a detail that GOP lawmakers and far-right personalities with large social media platforms have used in their attempts to undermine threats of violence against LGBT+ people and suggest that trans people, not the proliferation of high-powered firearms, should be regulated and criminalised.
