On March 27, the country was rocked by yet another shooting, this time at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Audrey Hale, 28, a former student at Covenant who identified as trans masculine, using the name "Aidan" though she was born female, claimed the lives of six people during her bloody rampage, three of them students. Hale herself was shot dead by the police when they arrived.

In the aftermath of the shooting, it turned out that Hale had left a manifesto detailing her months of planning for the attack; apparently, the act was far from a spur-of-the-moment episode of mental illness. It was cold-blooded, premeditated murder of children, full stop. She even had concerns that she could have been caught in the summer of 2021. The Metropolitan Police Department of Nashville, as well as the FBI, refused to release these handwritten documents. Now, we may know why.

This week, Steven Crowder leaked Hale’s manifesto, reading the contents of the three pages that had been leaked to him aloud on his show. The pages have been reviewed by The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo, who has described their contents in grisly detail. The manifesto Crowder leaked is undoubtedly Hale’s work, and its authenticity has been confirmed. What is of most interest to police and Nashville's elected leaders, however, is who leaked it.

Make no mistake, the words are incendiary. The document paints a picture not merely of mental illness (the young woman was very concerned about what would happen to her stuffed animals after she died, which she fully expected to do), but of a social contagion that affects large portions of the country, and whose carriers include not just Hale, but arguably the president of the United States himself. 

This is a president who instructed parents to "affirm their kids" during his first "Trans Day of Visibility" in office, and who draped the White House in a Progress Pride Flag before shaking hands with a trans influencer who then posed topless on the White House lawn.