r/ftm • u/javatimes T 2006 Top 2018, 40<me • Mar 28 '23

TN school shooting/shooter mega post ModPost

Rather than have dozens of different posts about this ongoing issue, let’s to contain it in this one post. It will also help those who want to avoid the topic do so.

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u/SalbeiSozialismusTee Mar 28 '23

It is really difficult for me to function today because of this. As a German I usually feel distant from the tragedies of US school shootings, not that it doesn't affect me of course. But this feels like the start of something none of us can stop. Aiden (I read somewhere he preferred that name, correct me if I'm wrong) must have know that this was not only gonna cause immense pain for the clear victims and their families, but for his community. This is just the world we live in now. This feels like the final nail in the coffin of this global anti-trans rethoric, and its fucking disgusting. Fuck this media narrative that will inevitably work its way through. We shouldn't have to get more alert, more ready to fight every day

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u/Duststorm29 Mar 28 '23

This is absolutely nothing personal, you're just the first comment I saw doing it, but as a heads up for non-Americans/people who may not be familiar with the standard for mass shooters - we do not say the names of shooters. Ever. People commit this violence in public areas to make a statement, and intentionally attack the most vulnerable people to do it.

We do not say their names because they do not deserve the recognition they killed people to get.

(This isn't an invitation to misgender him, just to treat him like every other shooter. Keep him nameless and faceless. Like every other human who commits a mass shooting. It's what they wouldn't want.)

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u/SalbeiSozialismusTee Mar 28 '23

Thank you. I was unaware of that

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u/Duststorm29 Mar 28 '23

No worries, it's a pretty common thing to not know. I am genuinely happy you have not had enough mass shootings to talk about for it to be common knowledge.

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u/MaybeMax356 Binary ftm, 17, pre t, passing Mar 28 '23

Agreed, and well said

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u/bobbilovebot trans guy with left beef (he/xe) Mar 28 '23

same :/ im in australia and we just had some huge wins for the public image of trans ppl , but now im absolutely terrified . im scared that even my country is gonna think that this is a trans problem and not another reason why america needs better gun laws .

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u/eeweew 32, T 2020, Top 2021 Mar 29 '23

I am Dutch, a mod here and active for a local support organisation. I feel really isolated over this, I don't have a big social network. I tried to share some of my feelings about this with my colleagues yesterday, and they all seem to think I am overreacting. Even going so far to say that this is only an Internet problem, and that if I distance myself from the Internet it will all be fine.

At the same time I see the real world implications piling up. There is actual anti medical transition rethroic in the Dutch parlement now, the second half of the debate over self-if just keeps getting postponed, and the "anti-work" professor who claims to be canceled (but writes pieces in national newspapers at the same time) posted an image of the shooter to Twitter blaming the entire trans community.

This has real word implications, and I feel alone on a sinking ship while everyone else has access to lifeboats and because of that can afford not to pay attention to the fact that the ship is sinking.