Chris Lange, FISM News
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Monday’s horrific mass killing at a Nashville school by a trans-identified shooter and an upcoming “trans day of vengeance” has cast a spotlight on the violent radicalization of youth who identify as transgender or non-binary.
Breitbart reported this week that a group of researchers in Quebec found that young people who identify as transgender are at the highest risk of “violent radicalization” in comparison to other demographic groups.
In a study published last month in Frontiers in Psychology that appears on the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine website titled “Meaning in Life, Future Orientation and Support for Violent Radicalization Among Canadian College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” researchers concluded that transgender and “gender diverse” youth were the most likely to be open to violent radicalization of all the groups.
“Violent radicalization” was defined by researchers as “a complex and multidimensional phenomenon defined as a process whereby an individual or a group increases support for violence as a legitimate means to reach a specific (e.g., political, social, and religious) goal.”
The authors pointed out that “population-wide attitudes toward legitimizing some forms of violence may increase social polarization and fuel the emergence of extremist groups, thus providing a narrative to channel despair and rage in vulnerable individuals.”
A GROWING TREND OF VIOLENCE
Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson noted on Twitter that Monday’s tragedy represented the fourth recent mass shooting carried out by a “non-gender conforming” individual.
“The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary. The Denver shooter identified as trans. The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans. The Nashville shooter identified as trans. One thing is VERY clear: the modern trans movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists,” Johnson wrote.
Nashville police said that mass shooter Audrey Hale identified as “transgender,” though it is unclear whether Hale, a biological female, identified as a male at the time of the shooting. Police have used female pronouns when referring to Hale.
PARENTS KNEW HALE WAS DISTURBED
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said that Hale’s parents informed investigators that prior to their daughter’s 14-minute killing spree, during which Hale was shot and killed by police, the 28-year-old had been under doctor’s care “for an emotional disorder.” Drake said at the time that he was unaware of Hale’s diagnosis or any treatment she may or may not have received leading up to the massacre, according to The New York Post.
Drake also said that Hale’s parents determined that their daughter should not own any firearms and believed her prior assertions that she had sold the weapons she had lawfully purchased from five separate sources. Officers later discovered seven firearms hidden throughout the home where Hale lived with her parents, along with a manifesto and maps of the Covenant Christian School where she shot three nine-year-old students and three adults.
Investigators have not determined Hale’s motive in the killings but noted that, at some point during her childhood, she attended the same school. Investigators have so far suggested that the victims were killed at random, as opposed to having been specifically targeted.
Republican presidential candidate and “Woke, Inc.” author Vivek Ramaswamy suggested that society’s compulsory need to “affirm” others’ gender identities renders a grave disservice to people who struggle with gender dysphoria.
“When someone says they’re trans, it usually means *something else* is badly wrong in their life,” Ramaswamy wrote in a tweet. “Let’s abandon the farce that the ‘humane’ thing to do is to affirm their confusion, rather than to actually help. It’s inhumane. My heart goes out to the victims & families in Nashville.