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Behind the Aegis

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Fri Oct 28, 2022, 04:08 PM Oct 2022

GOP senator speaks at transphobic rally where people threatened to kill doctors

White supremacists and Proud Boys joined other far-right politicians, pundits, and protestors at a recent “Rally to End Child Mutilation” in Nashville, Tennessee. Some of the protestors held signs supporting death and violence against doctors who provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth, and a Republican elected official was in attendance.

The rally, held at the city’s War Memorial Plaza on October 21, was organized by conservative podcaster and transphobe Matt Walsh. Walsh spoke at the event alongside Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), state lawmakers like state Sen. Jack Johnson (R) and state Rep. William Lamberth (R), former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, a lawyer from the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, and other anti-trans activists. An estimated 1,500 to 3,000 people attended, according to varying media reports.

At the rally, one protester held a sign that said, “Doctors who mutilate children should be killed.” Another held a sign that said, “Mutilate the mutilators.” One protestor told counterprotesters, “No mutilators. Mutilators go home.” Other signs declared “homo sex is sin” and that “hellfire awaits” gay people. One of several Proud Boys flashed a white nationalist hand signal during the event, Media Matters reported.

During his speech, Walsh asked the crowd, “As Tennesseans, do we believe in castrating children? Do we believe in that? Do we believe in drugging and mutilating kids? They believe in it.”

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GOP senator speaks at transphobic rally where people threatened to kill doctors (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Oct 2022 OP
Just some of those fine ORANGE A-O humper patriot republianmushroom Oct 2022 #1
Meanwhile, Caitlin Jenner is on Fox News blaming Nancy Pelosi for the attack on her husband tenderfoot Oct 2022 #2
Caitlyn is wrong. I blame Hannity and Tucker for this. Initech Oct 2022 #4
Why don't we start calling this shit terrorism? Initech Oct 2022 #3
Is circumcision of male infants performed in Tennessee? LastDemocratInSC Oct 2022 #5

Initech

(100,104 posts)
4. Caitlyn is wrong. I blame Hannity and Tucker for this.
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 04:38 PM
Oct 2022

They should be arrested and charged as accessories.

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