
Our Rights DC issued a statement asserting that “we lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it.”
“The safety of our trans community is first priority,” the group added, claiming that trans people have been threatened since the shooting.
The group describes the alleged threats to the trans community as “the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community,” claiming that it is “one of the steps in genocide.”
2/x: Individuals who had nothing to with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity. This is one of the steps in genocide, and we will continue our efforts to protect trans lives.
— Our Rights DC (@OurRightsDC) March 30, 2023
4/x: In an ideal world we would have continued on in defiance of the attempt to silence our right to free expression. However, we lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it.
— Our Rights DC (@OurRightsDC) March 30, 2023
5/5: In our continued efforts to preserve trans and non binary life we have notified the appropriate agencies.
— Our Rights DC (@OurRightsDC) March 30, 2023
There are no comments on the Twitter thread because the group has limited who can reply, but you can imagine what people really think about this.
Those who warned about the upcoming protest sparking violence were locked out of Twitter:
Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ groups have threatened “serious consequences” if the FBI releases the mission statement of the Nashville shooter Audrey Hale.
Trans Radical Activist Network, the group behind 'Trans Day of Vengeance' raised money for firearms training. Activists, posing with guns, call for the beheading of ‘christcucks’ & to throw ‘christcuck’ babies in bins.
Those outraged by this are being suspended by Twitter.… pic.twitter.com/ytLQWAgbgR
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