‘Desperate and bigoted’: the right uses latest shooting to malign trans people

From hateful rants on Fox news to falsehoods in Congress, the far right exploits the tragedy to demonize vulnerable people

An already vigorous assault by Republicans on LGBTQ+ rights around the US is certain to gather pace in the wake of the Nashville school shooting, advocacy groups are warning.

Hard-right figures wasted little time in seizing on the reported transgender identity of the Covenant school killer to advance tenets of a hateful" agenda that has become an obsession of Republican-controlled statehouses from Florida to Tennessee.