Madonna Slammed For Announcing Trans Rights Concert "For Our Most Vulnerable Citizens" In Nashville One Day After School Shooting
On Monday, six innocent people in Nashville were gunned down by a woman who identified as transgender. Madonna's response is to host a trans rights concert in the same city.
The tragic Nashville school shooting left six innocent people dead: three 9-year-old children and three adults. The attack took place at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Green Hills, an affluent area of Nashville that is generally known to be safe for families. On Monday morning, 28-year-old Audrey Hale broke into the school and opened fire inside the building. She set up on the second floor with three firearms and also shot down in the parking lot at the police cars that arrived on scene. Law enforcement arrived quickly and confronted the suspect in just four minutes. She was shot and killed by police on the second floor in an atrium lobby. We later learned that Hale identified as a trans male who previously attended The Covenant School. Since this information was revealed, multiple media outlets, organizations, and activists defended her actions and even tried to paint her as the victim in this tragedy. Madonna is the latest one to fall in line with this narrative.
Madonna Slammed for Announcing Trans Rights Concert in Nashville "for Our Most Vulnerable Citizens"
The school shooting took place on Monday, and one day later, Madonna posted a picture to her Instagram of herself playing the guitar with a caption in support of trans individuals. She announced that The Celebration Tour was adding eight more cities to its route, and she was "especially happy" to say that she is going to Nashville "to celebrate Drag and the Trans community."
“The oppression of the LGBTQ+ is not only unacceptable and inhumane; it’s creating an unsafe environment; making America a dangerous place for our most vulnerable citizens, especially trans women of color. Also, these so-called laws to protect. our children are unfounded and pathetic. Anyone with half a brain knows not to fuck with a drag queen. Bob and I will see you from the stage in Nashville where we will celebrate the beauty that is the Queer community!” the caption said.
Nowhere in the post does it mention the six lives lost from the school shooting. Madonna doesn't even acknowledge the tragedy that took place, let alone give condolences to the families that lost loved ones just one day prior. The comments on the posts were limited, and the very few comments that were allowed were in support of her trans rights efforts.
Many users online expressed rage and anger at the fact that Madonna is hosting a concert to donate all the benefits to trans rights groups—without any care at all for the families of the murdered victims. "Madonna is doing a concert In Nashville, but the proceeds will go to 'trans rights' groups and NOT the families of the murdered victims? Wow, just when I think leftist entertainers can’t disgust me any further, they manage to scrape an even deeper bottom," James Bradley tweeted. Many others chimed in to call her actions Satanic and unforgivable.
As enraged as people are online, Madonna will never respond to any of the backlash, and she will perform the concert in Nashville as usual. The media and all the celebrities who are praised by the media will continue to exalt the trans movement, even if it's at the expense of innocent lives lost.