Tyler O’Neil | September 04, 2024
(The Daily Signal) — The Tennessee Star released the full journal of the Nashville, Tennessee, shooter Tuesday, and its contents reveal how transgender orthodoxy can encourage suicidal tendencies—and worse—in a way that turns gender identity into a kind of religion.
Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old female who identified as male, opened fire at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, 2023. Before police shot and killed her, Hale killed three children and three adults—Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9; Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
The Metro Nashville Police Department recovered 90 pages of Hale’s writings in a collection the Tennessee Star refers to as “The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal.” A source familiar with the investigation provided the journal to the Star in June 2024. Police also recovered a spiral notebook with writings about locations, including a map of the school and how Hale planned to enter the school and kill people there. Authorities also recovered 20 additional journals Hale wrote between 2007 and 2022. The Star obtained only the 2023 journal.
Michael Patrick Leahy, the Star’s editor-in-chief, said a Nashville government lawyer confirmed the journal’s authenticity in court. The Star filed a Tennessee Public Records Act request for all the Hale documents in April 2023, and the news outlet is appealing a judge’s refusal to order the documents published.
Leahy also claims that Davidson County, Tennessee, Judge L’Ashea Myles sent a letter on June 10, ordering him into her courtroom on June 17, on the pretext that he had violated a court order. Leahy claims he had violated no court order and that Myles refused to provide the court order in question. He further claims that Myles altered the reason for the meeting on June 17 in moves that created “a chilling effect on my First Amendment rights.”
“According to Tennessee Supreme Court rules, judges are ethically prohibited from commenting on ongoing cases,” J. Bart Pickett, state trial courts administrator, told The Daily Signal, which had approached his office to receive Judge Myles’ side of the story.
Hale’s journal reveals a great deal of anger against her father.
Hale’s writings repeatedly fixate on her erotic desire for a girl and include frequent laments that she is female and so cannot be in a heterosexual relationship with the object of her affection.
“I’m in the wrong body,” Hale writes.
“A terrible feeling to know I am nothing of the gender I was born of,” she adds. “I am the most unhappy boy alive. I wish to be dead.”
“Either I have too much b**ch-ass estrogen, or I’m just a sad lonely boy,” she writes. She recalls applying for art jobs and getting rejected, time and time again.
“It’s simple yet everything to me of adult life sucks—more complicated than it should be,” Hale writes. “Death is simple.”
She repeatedly condemns her father, referring to him as a “faggot,” and writing, “A day without a father will be a better day.”
In one passage titled “Dad problems,” Hale writes, “I hate when my dad loves on the cats; not me. He never once loved on me for years.” She adds, “all cranky good-for-nothing mentally ill men SHOULD DIE. They’re all useless pieces of sh**.”
She repeatedly condemns her father for giving her advice and attempting to encourage her that life will get better.