The organizers behind the "Trans Day of Vengeance" announced Thursday the event will not go on as scheduled due to "a credible threat to life and safety."
In a lengthy statement, the Trans Radical Activist Network blamed the reaction to the Monday shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, where three children and three adults were killed at a Christian school by a person who identified as transgender.
"This action will not be taking place Saturday due to a credible threat to life and safety. The safety of our trans community is first priority. This threat is the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community after the Tennessee shooting. Individuals who had nothing to with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity," the statement said.
The organization also stated that it had "notified the appropriate agencies" as part of its "continued efforts to preserve trans and nonbinary life."
"We lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it. In our continued efforts to preserve trans and nonbinary life we have notified the appropriate agencies," the statement ended.
The event was originally scheduled to take place Friday through Sunday in Washington, D.C., with the goal of the events to be protesting laws that restrict transgender surgeries for minors and rhetoric about transgender people by politicians.
Critics have said the "day of vengeance" should not take place immediately after the Nashville shooting, with the shooter's transgender identity being a topic of conversation in the aftermath of the tragedy.
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TRAN denounced the Nashville shooting in a previous statement when it said the event would be continuing on as scheduled.
"We Tsukuru [co-founder], Our Rights DC, and TRAN are horrified at the acts of violence committed at the Covenant school on March 27, 2023. We grieve for Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill, and with their loved ones," the organization said. "We also reject any connection between that horrific event and ours. Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence. We are fighting against false narratives, criminalization, and eradication of our existence."