White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday declared that "fierce" transgender kids "fight back" — and then got pummeled for her rhetoric given that a trans shooter just killed three 9-year-old children and three adults in Nashville last month.

Fox News said Jean-Pierre said during a White House press briefing that “this has been one of the worst weeks of 2023 so far in terms of anti-LGBTQ bills becoming law in states across America" in regard to legislation banning genital mutilation of children.

“With the enactment of a new law in Indiana, 14 states have now banned gender-affirming health care, while some of these laws are currently blocked by courts. This is a dangerous — a dangerous attack on the rights of parents to make the best healthcare decisions for their own kids,” Jean-Pierre said, adding that the Human Rights Campaign claims that “more than 50 percent of transgender youth in the U.S., which is estimated to be more than 150,000 kids, live in states in which transgender youth have lost access to or [are] at risk of losing access to gender-affirming care.”

Then Jean-Pierre appeared to take the gloves off: “Look, this is awful news. Let’s be very clear about that. LGBTQI+ kids are resilient. They are fierce. They fight back. They’re not going anywhere. And we have their back. This administration has their back."

Fox News added that the press secretary also said, "We are so proud of the kids across this country who have organized protests and school walkouts to tell the politicians in their states to stop this legislative bullying.”

Jean-Pierre hit a nerve among those concerned her rhetoric may add more fuel to a growing left-wing fire, with trans people seeming to stoke the biggest flames of late.

Indeed, beside the Nashville massacre, a transgender teenager with a written manifesto was just arrested in Colorado for allegedly plotting an attack on schools and churches. What's more, swimmer Riley Gaines was just "ambushed and physically hit" by a male trans activist and swarmed by violent mob amid her speech at San Francisco State University.

Notable Twitter commenters soon tore into Jean-Pierre:

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