Medicine got something wrong. This shooter should have been in the nut house. Much like the Uvalde killer should have been. All these school shooters have mental illness in common. I do blame Republicans for refusing common sense that would reduce these school shootings by limiting access to guns. They refuse to admit any person obssessed with guns and collecting a large amount of guns is a sign of mental illness if they dont actively hunt or use guns for a hobby.
I can not buy that these so called trans kids had it worse than everyone else. I went to school with Tom Boy girls and Effeminate boys. If a child might be trans I dont see why they need to be treated as the opposite sex. They can be a masculine girl or effeminate boy. They might get picked on but who didnt. I think its a crucial life experience to be in that position at a young age to overcome it. When they turn 18 and you still want to be a girl go ahead and live your best life. There needs to be a long period between "I think I want to be a girl" and putting a dress on Little Jimmy and calling him Shirley.
I will and would never support putting all trans kids in asylums but I feel the need to state that doctors opinions can be heavily politicized. My field of expertise is on the governments gaslighting its own people about Marijuana. When the government says this is a fact doctors fall in line. And I would need to get deep into any kind of study data on the issue that contradicts me because, again, I know a thing or two about rigged studies to reach a desired outcome. I cant trust them on face value.
Here’s where I think we are just talking past each other a bit. If you, like me, don’t want to just commit all trans people but don’t trust the medicine, I’m completely on board with accepting that. Again, I’m not here to convince others of something I don’t fully understand myself. I’m asking some others to consider the constitutional implications of the far more extreme responses from right-wing grifters and politicians. The claim “send all trans people to asylums” is grim. The claim “don’t blindly trust doctors and question their motivations” is reasonable.
As for the case of this individual, absolutely they were failed by medicine somewhere. I think it’s overly simplistic at best to reduce their mental health struggles to
they are trans, so we should have known, which is where a lot of the right has taken it today, but this was a person clearly going through a crisis and it’s a failure that this wasn’t identified through the behaviors you’re mentioning about piling up guns and glorifying violence.
What you’re claiming is much more realistic, and I wish more had been done to help this troubled teen. But I do not under any circumstances excuse their murders under some justification of trans kids having it harder than any other group. Even if it’s true that bullying and lack of acceptance leads to increased anti-social outcomes, nobody made this person pull the trigger but themselves. So I reject the convenient excuses some on the left will want to make about Christian bigotry or discrimination. Millions of kids have suffered that without committing unspeakably evil murders. Where I’ve been otherwise pushing back is the suggestion that social acceptance of trans kids by the left is fueling these specific outcomes. It’s the other side of the “discrimination and bigotry leads to violence” coin, only it makes *less* sense because tolerance and acceptance aren’t typically drivers of mass murder.
For those like you, who might have a different view on trans issues, but doesn’t want to use your views to push for consenting adults to not receive care they agree to with a medical professional or to lock up someone who isn’t a danger to society, I’m not against that. But a lot of folks seem to think that their opinion on the medicine/science gives them the right to take away rights from others. And I understand that happens in both directions on this issue, but I don’t see how any sane person can think the solution is to just lock people up over gender without any other factors.