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.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP
Bodycam footage of police responding to an active shooting at the Covenant School at Nashville. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP

How to describe the gender of the now-deceased Nashville school shooter has quickly emerged as the latest controversy regarding transgender issues, with major media sources tiptoeing around the issue, often in tortured fashion, by avoiding gender pronouns as much as possible. 

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