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November 9, 2023

Following conservative pundit Steven Crowder’s release of three pages of a “manifesto” written by the Nashville school shooter, controversy erupted over whether Crowder selectively publicized content to bias the public against leftist dogma.

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One the pages implicates “white privilege”—a favorite bogeyman of critical race theorists and the progressive left—as motivation for the killing rampage. 

The leaked salvo reads, “Kill those kids!!  Those crackers going to private fancy schools….Bunch of little f*ggots w/ your white privlages (sic)….”

Nashville Channel 5 reporter, Phil Williams, tweeted that the pages leaked were “EXTREMELY misleading” according to “sources”:

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Instead of denouncing Crowder, his critics should decry the government authorities who arbitrarily kept this killer’s writings from the public.  Multiple media outlets requested the shooter’s manifesto through public records only to be denied by the Nashville Police Department and FBI.  These outlets, including Star News Digital Media Inc., are suing for the records in both district and federal court.  Even if all documents authored by the shooter are released, however, insight into the killer’s motivations will remain seriously incomplete.  The murderer’s medications also need to be public information.

The killer of six innocent people on March 27, 2023 was a 28 year-old female.  According to the non-profit, The Violence Project, female mass shooters (defined as killing four or more people outside of the perpetrator) are incredibly rare.  Of 172 mass shooters studied between 1966 and 2021 only four were female (and 2 of those had a male partner).  The database reports 13 mass shootings at K-12 schools during that time frame, all committed by males.  A U.S. Department of Education 2018 study examined active shooter incidents at schools, meaning “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.”  Between 2000 and 2017 there were 37 active shooter incidents at K-12 schools with 153 casualties.  All 37 active shooters were male.

So why did this lone female shooter murder six innocent people at a primary school?  Was this mentally unbalanced person’s resentment over “white privlages” the sole impetus in breaking the trend of male school-targeting mass murderers, or could medications have played a role—more specifically, exogenous testosterone?

According to Nashville police, the female shooter identified as a transgender man and was undergoing treatment for an “emotional disorder.”   In desiring to present herself to society as a man, perhaps she only socially transitioned.  If she decided to experiment with cross-sex masculinizing hormones, however, more questions arise: when did she start, how high were her levels, and how thoroughly were they monitored?  While the shooter’s autopsy report is public, it did not include testing for anabolic steroids.  Masculinizing cross-sex hormones include anabolic-androgenic steroids—a term leftists glaringly avoid.