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The Covenant School Shooting: Media Coverage and Backlash against the Transgender Community

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  • Daisy Ball

    (Public Affairs, Roanoke College, Salem, VA 24153, USA)

  • James Suleyman

    (Public Affairs, Roanoke College, Salem, VA 24153, USA)

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On 27 March 2023, Aiden Hale broke into the Covenant School, a private Christian academy in Nashville, TN, and killed three students and three staff members. Hale, a former student at the school, was transgender. Although assigned female at birth, Hale identified as male, asked to be called by a male name, and used he/him pronouns. In the aftermath of the shooting, a newfound wave of anti-trans rhetoric soared, once again putting members of the transgender community in harm’s way. In this article, we review the details of the Covenant School shooting and consider them in the context of the anti-trans movement in the United States, a movement that has escalated as transgender people have become more visible and more vocal in society. We then present findings from an extensive content analysis of newspaper coverage in the two weeks following the shooting (27 March–10 April). In so doing, we add to the literature on K-12 school shootings and gender studies, specifically stigma towards the transgender community.

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  • Daisy Ball & James Suleyman, 2023. "The Covenant School Shooting: Media Coverage and Backlash against the Transgender Community," Laws, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-22, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:12:y:2023:i:6:p:88-:d:1289517
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