Navigating Transgender Discourse in the Wake of Nashville Shooting

Former President Donald Trump suggested that clinical treatment for gender transitioning could have played a role in the Nashville school shooting during a televised broadcast. Trump's comment about "banning it" in the military appears to refer to his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military. However, there is no evidence that the shooter was taking hormone therapy or any other treatment for a clinical transition. Claims that the shooter was transgender came from the police and an unnamed source, and it is not clear where these assertions originated and what they are based on.