has there been a transphobic reaction from the holy see? and why?
Not yet, but this is a concern, especially as he is from where it happened, is of the affected group, is only a year in office, and probably knows the casualties were all children who were born after 2010 and would make sainthood records in regards to their ages (one even took a bullet for a classmate).
To sum it up, there was a mass shooting yesterday at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Depending on the sources, the body count is currently either three or six, including the shooter who chose to die rather than let herself be arrested. Seventeen more were injured. The first thing people will notice about the shooter is that she is male-to-female transgender, and she mentions this in a manifesto she wrote that was intended to be seen after the shooting (but the place she published it to took it down, who would've thunk).
Initially I would've thought that three (or even six) people wouldn't have made as much of an impact as, say, the typical twenty something people you hear about, but we live in a weird timeline and people are reacting more to this than in other cases. It's safe to speculate there's also some bias at play. Now enter the pope. He got appointed this year and for once is literally as American as apple pie. I think of all these circumstances put together and I think "well shit".
No. The reason the statistics claim that is that their definition of "mass shooting" isn't as strict as the one held by the individuals who look up the statistics.
Had you heard of the American mass shooting yesterday?
Please be careful and mindful of your safety as this will unfortunately cause an uptick of anti-trans hatred.
You could say that again. The transgender community is going to be screwed if the new Chicagoan pope decides to canonize the victims, Romanov-style.
I hear this a lot from all sides, but how do people actually think civilians with guns are going to fare against government enforcers who would inevitably be better armed? They never tell us that part.
There were several who weren't transgender.
The culprit's mother was the one who helped her change her name from her deadname. It appears that, at least in this case, she wasn't totally surrounded by haters.
Guarantee it doesn't make things any better.
TIL there's a Department of Violence and Apathy.
towelhead
That's actually a slur people use? It sounds so cringey. It would be like if I called Colonel Sanders a chickenbutt.
Close. She massacred Minneapolis Catholic school students.