The nation watched on Monday as news unfolded about the latest attack in an ongoing stream of horrific school shootings. This time, Covenant School in my new home of Nashville was targeted. Based on initial reports , six people — three staff and three children — were killed.

The cold-blooded killing of any innocent human is devastating enough, but the barbaric killing of children who have not yet had the chance to live drags such evil to depths that are, unfortunately, far from new.

In such times, it’s important to come together, to grieve as a community, to reject such violence as a united society, and to mourn those lost.

But that’s not what happened. Indeed, it’s never what happens. Instead, the subject of the shooter’s identity becomes the central theme of the attack, used to determine the response.

I am of the opinion that we should refrain from publicizing any identifying information regarding the shooter in these cases. In the aftermath of these attacks, the face of the attack is too often the face of the attacker, who immediately gains the sick notoriety he or she often craves. Meanwhile, the victims fade into the background.

Is it any surprise that most are likely more aware of the shooter’s name and face than the names and faces of any of the victims?

But what further added to this frenzy regarding the shooter’s identity in this case is the fact that the shooter was transgender.

Given the clear ideological nature of this attack — which was reportedly targeted, with Nashville police recovering a manifesto, plans for the attack, and potential “ resentment ” from the shooter for “having to go to that school” — the subject of transgenderism is relevant, at least for those investigating the crime.

But if we lived in a logical world, the shooter’s so-called gender identity would not be the headline. Instead, however, gender identity has quickly become the center of this narrative, with media outlets falling over themselves to stay within the bounds of their self-prescribed woke madness.

“Update: A previous post about the Nashville Christian school shooting included initial information from police officials about the suspect's gender,” MSNBC tweeted . “Those officials have since noted that the shooter was transgender.”

“There was confusion later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the Nashville shooting. Officials had used ‘she’ and ‘her’ to refer to the suspect, who, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months,” the New York Times tweeted .

“Police on Monday afternoon said that the shooter was a transgender man,” USA Today tweeted . “Officials had initially misidentified the gender of the shooter.”

One activist even condemned CNN for “misgendering” the shooter.

If this doesn’t convince America of the insanity of the pronoun movement, nothing will. The shooter doesn’t deserve any notoriety or recognition or respect, let alone our continued descent into pronoun lunacy by worrying about how this evil individual identified.

Remember the crime, but erase the criminal’s name. Instead, remember the names of those killed: students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney — all nine years old — and staff members Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill.

Ian Haworth ( @ighaworth ) is the host of Off Limits with Ian Haworth .