#rightwing backlash

For transgender people, Kirk’s killing has unleashed a new wave of anti-trans hate so intense that some are now making plans to leave the country altogether. Those of us who have tracked this movement for years can see the shift: the far right, led by Trump and his administration, has seized on the shooting as a rallying cry. Trans people did not shoot Charlie Kirk. Yet we are forced to bear the weight of the right’s reaction – turned into scapegoats for a tragedy that was never ours.