The Far Right Is At It Again

With their lies and innuendos against us this time it is the shooter at the church.

The Texas megachurch shooter has not been identified as transgender, despite claims online
AP News
By MELISSA GOLDIN
February 13, 2024

CLAIM: The shooter who carried out an attack injuring two people at a Texas megachurch on Sunday has been identified as transgender.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Houston police said on Monday that its investigation has thus far determined that the shooter, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, identified as female despite using multiple aliases, including the name Jeffery — or Jeffrey — Escalante. Multiple court records identify Moreno as female, most recently in 2022.

THE FACTS: Amid the aftermath of Sunday’s shooting at Lakewood Church, which is led by televangelist pastor Joel Osteen, social media users spread false claims about Moreno’s gender identity.

Lies to stir up anger and aninosity against us.

Fox News and GOP politicians falsely claim Lakewood Church shooter was transgender
The suspected shooter was a 36-year-old who police identified as the mother of a 7-year-old boy who was shot in the incident.
The Advocate
By Christopher Wiggins
February 12, 2024

Soon after news broke that a person had entered Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on Sunday and opened fire, right-wing influencers, Republican politicians, and right-wing media outlets, including Fox News, pushed a false narrative that the suspected shooter was transgender.

During a Monday afternoon press conference, Houston officials, including Police Chief Troy Finner and Democratic Mayor John Whitmire, provided updates on the investigation.

[…]

Commander Christopher Hassig of HPD’s homicide division clarified the shooter's identity.

“Our shooter is identified by a driver’s license as Genesee Moreno, 36 years old, Hispanic female,” Hassig said. “She has utilized both male and female names, but through all of our investigation to this point…she has been identified this entire time as female.”

And it is the usual MAGA Republicans continue the lies.

The incident has also been a magnet for misinformation, notably propagated by far-right figures on social media. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, contributed to the confusion with a post on X, formerly Twitter, making unfounded claims about the shooter’s identity and motivations.

[...]

Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok further fueled the misinformation, erroneously writing, “BREAKING: The Lakewood Church shooter was transgender. He went by the name ‘Genesse’ and previously ‘Jeffrey.’ Another act of trans terrorism. We need to have a national conversation about the LGBTQ movement turning youth into violent extremists,” based solely on the suspect’s criminal history listing a male name as an alias.

[...]

Republican Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley also perpetuated the falsehood that the shooter was trans.

“So the Lakewood church shooter was a transgender, pro-Palestine radical. We need a full hate crimes investigation, including the influences on the shooter’s motivation, plans & thinking,” he wrote.

They knows that this is fake news but they continue to spread the lies,

She [Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender attorney and Harvard Law School instructor.] wrote: “Far right extremist accounts like Libs of Tiktok rushed to call the shooter at Joel Osteen’s church a transgender woman. The police have just confirmed that is not the case and she was the biological mother of the child who was shot. They won’t apologize or retract their lies.”

The thing is the right-wing fanatics gobble this up and believe all the lies the right-wing media spreads, just look at the Cuckoo Award this after they believe that Taylor Swift is an CIA plant.