Call Me Max (shooter)
Nashville, TN - When Call Me Max (shooter), Aiden Hale, 28, stepped into Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, a teacher at the school hesitated to call he/him Audrey before being shot dead. Something didn't seem to fit, maybe it was the manifesto, the two rifles, the pistol, the he/him pronouns.
This begins Call Me Max's (shooter) journey as he/him went to the second floor of the private Christian school to makes new friends and reveal he/his feelings about he/his new identity to teachers and students with a hail of bullets. With the warmth and sensitivity of a story written by trans writer Kyle Lukoff, Call Me Max (shooter) day at his/her former school was a sweet and age-appropriate introduction to what it means to be a transgender.
But the brave and courageous transgender was oppressed by the police who shot he/him dead. The fascists then created an unsafe space by reporting he/his dead name of Audrey and misgendering he/him as a she/her female.
At the end of a police department presser, a common sense advocate for gun control on vacation just happened to show up to ask reporters if they/them were tired of reporting on gun shootings.
A CNN reporter happily replied: “no, not at all, I can easily make this story fit the narrative.” Rubbing they/them chin pondered, “Let’s see, he/him is white, transitioned male, went to Christian school, wearing red cap. Hmm, my headline is ‘white, male, MAGA Republican, Christian Nationalist goes on a domestic terrorist rampage slaughtering children with weapons of war,’ unless my editor says bury the story because he/him was transgender.”
This tragic story was avoidable. Gender affirming care saves lives. Children died when Governor Bill Lee signed the bill banning gender affirming care for children. Love is love.