This is the way Rupert Murdoch's New York Post is playing the Nashville school shooting story
If you go looking for other New York Post covers of school shootings, you will not find the gender identity of the shooter featured in the headline, such as
HETEROSEXUAL MALE KILLS 60 IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTING
Or:
GENDER-CONFORMING 18 YEAR OLD KILLS 17 IN UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING
It doesn’t matter who is holding the gun and pulling the trigger or what their “motive” is. With an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a 30-round magazine, all you need is bullets.
When I was a young reporter at the World-Telegram and Sun in New York starting in 1962, I would pull clips from the morgue and discover stories written this way: "Robert Jones, colored, was arrested today for assault...." Judging by the dates on those clips, I joined the paper only a few years -- five at most -- after that noxious practice ended. (Legend had it that it was dropped when a reporter racially identified everyone in a story as in: "Robert Jones, colored, was arrested today by NYPD officers Bill Smith, white, and Pedro Lopez, Puerto Rican/Mixed Race. He was accused of beating his wife, Mary Jones, colored, in a domestic dispute. A neighbor, Frank Smith, white, called the police to the scene...." I have no way of knowing if the legend is true.). Anyway, it appears that for the right-wing media, "transgender" is the new "colored."
We are drowning in a sea of lies and misinformation. Scuba divers die if they forget which way is up. For out society today, which way indeed is "up"?