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More of the Nashville Trans Shooter’s Manifesto Just Dropped<\/a><\/p>\n

The Tennessee Star has\u00a0published 90 pages of the manifesto<\/a>\u00a0belonging to the “transgender” Nashville shooter who slaughtered six victims, including three children, at a private Christian elementary school on March 27, 2023.<\/p>\n

According to the never-before-seen excerpts legally obtained by the local newspaper, Covenant School killer Audrey “Aiden” Hale, a 28-year-old biological woman who identified as a “transgender man,” wrote about wanting “a boy body in heaven” and craving “brown love.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf God won’t give me a boy body in heaven, then Jesus is a f*gg*t,” Hale wrote on one page.<\/p>\n

On another, she said, “Brown love is the most beautiful kind.”<\/p>\n

Hale had repeatedly questioned, “why does my brain not work right?” Concluding, “Cause I was born wrong,” she lamented, “Nothing on earth can save me\u2026never ending pain. Religion won’t save.”<\/p>\n

In an undated entry, Hale wrote, “The [cocoon] of my old self will die when I leave my body behind and the boy in me will be free; in the butterfly transformation; the real me.”<\/p>\n

Hale often signed off with an octagonal symbol, which first appears on the journal’s cover. The shape was drawn on the very first page, opposite where Hale wrote, “Why does my brain not work right? Cause I was born wrong!!!”<\/p>\n

The journal, which was written between January and March of 2023, is one of many Hale had in her possession.<\/p>\n

Police initially identified this journal, along with a spiral notebook found in the car she used to drive to the school, as the shooter’s “manifesto.” Authorities also seized approximately 20 additional journals Hale authored over a 15-year period from 2007 to 2022. Those writings are said to span about 1,000 pages.<\/p>\n

According to the local outlet, a source familiar with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) investigation handed over the handwritten journal, which The Tennessee Star is referring to as “The Covenant Killer\u2019s 2023 Journal” in order to distinguish it from the numerous ones predating 2023, in early June of this year.<\/p>\n

“We believe it to be authentic,” The Tennessee Star’s editor-in-chief Michael Patrick Leahy wrote in\u00a0a statement<\/a>\u00a0on the outlet’s website. MNPD further\u00a0confirmed its authenticity in court<\/a>, with\u00a0a court filing<\/a>\u00a0submitted by MNPD Lieutenant Alfredo Alevado authenticating it.<\/p>\n

“We have had a First Amendment right to publish these unredacted documents from the moment we legally obtained them,” Leahy stated.<\/p>\n

Leahy then outlined in great detail the legal avenues The Tennessre Star meticulously took to acquire the manifesto:<\/p>\n

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On April 24, 2023, in compliance with the Tennessee Public Records Act, we<\/span>\u00a0formally requested of MNPD<\/a>, a department within the Metro Nashville Davidson County Government, that they release\u00a0all\u00a0of the writings of Audrey Elizabeth Hale they had obtained as part of their investigation into the March 27, 2023 murders. Metro Nashville Government\u00a0<\/span>denied that request one day later<\/a>\u00a0on April 25, 2023, and<\/span>\u00a0in May 2023 we filed suit<\/a>\u00a0against Metro Nashville Government in Davidson County, Tennessee Chancery Court to obtain those writings, as provided for by the Tennessee Public Records Act. The case was assigned to Judge I\u2019Ashea Myles. In this matter we are well represented by America First Legal and their outstanding local counsel, Nick Brady.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In May 2023, MNPD provided Judge Myles with all of Hale\u2019s writings obtained through their investigation for her in-camera review. On July 4, 2024, Judge Myles<\/span>\u00a0released her decision<\/a>\u00a0in the case, which was to deny our request, on two grounds: (1) MNPD\u2019s assertion that they were conducting an ongoing investigation into the murders was a statutory exception to the Tennessee Public Records Act which would have allowed our request and (2) The assertion of ownership of Hales\u2019 writings and a subsequent copyright claim stemming from that purported ownership by an intervening group created a non-statutory exception to the Tennessee Public Records Act.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On July 31, 2024 we<\/span>\u00a0appealed<\/a>\u00a0the trial court\u2019s ruling to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. We expect to win our appeal.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Though we have had the First Amendment right to publish these writings since early June when we first received them, we have delayed their publication for three months until now for the following reasons.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0In the first instance, we chose to publish articles beginning on June 5, 2024 that were based on these writings but that did not feature the publication of these writings because we anticipated the Tennessee trial court was close to rendering a decision and we wanted to allow the court sufficient time to rule on our arguments. All told, we have published close to\u00a050 articles<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0The Tennessee Star<\/em>\u00a0that are based on\u00a0The Covenant Killer\u2019s 2023 Journal<\/em>\u00a0but do not contain the actual pages from that journal. You can find those articles<\/span>\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0On June 10, 2024, five days after we began publishing articles based on\u00a0The Covenant Killer\u2019s 2023<\/em>\u00a0Journal<\/em>, Judge Myles<\/span>\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0Show Cause Hearing Order<\/em>\u00a0to me, requiring me to show up in her courtroom on June 17, 2024 and explain to her why I should not be held in contempt of court for violating a court order. This was a surprising development, given that I have never violated any court order in this case and that the judge never produced the court order upon which the\u00a0Show Cause Hearing Order<\/em>\u00a0was based.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When I appeared in court on June 17, 2024, Judge Myles<\/span>\u00a0changed the purpose of the hearing<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 claiming it was for her to determine \u201cthe landscape\u201d of the case \u2013 and again refused to identify to my counsel the court order she thought I might be violating. Judge Myles ended that hearing by stating that she would take under consideration both a) her final ruling and b) whether or not she would appoint a \u201cspecial prosecutor\u201d to investigate and prosecute me for contempt of court \u2013 even though there is absolutely no evidence before the court that I have done anything that could be considered contempt of court. This statement, combined with the\u00a0June 10 Show Cause Hearing Order<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0June 17 Show Cause Hearing<\/em>, have combined to create a chilling effect on my First Amendment rights.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While Judge Myles<\/span>\u00a0issued her final ruling on the case itself on July 4, 2024<\/a>, she has provided no information as to whether she intends to appoint a \u201cspecial prosecutor\u201d to investigate me. This \u201cSword of Damocles\u201d has been held over my head by Judge Myles since June 17, 2024, and we have held off on publishing\u00a0The Covenant Killer\u2019s 2023 Journal<\/em>, in part, until our legal defense financial resources have reached a sufficient level such that I can hire counsel to represent me in the event Judge Myles seeks to resurrect this false claim against me. Our legal defense financial resources have just recently reached that level of sufficiency. I am pleased to announce that we are once again ably represented by Daniel Horwitz on the limited issue in which he represented us at the\u00a0June 17 Show Cause Hearing<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Until just recently, the lack of legal representation to address a second potential legal issue also prohibited our publication of\u00a0The Covenant Killer\u2019s 2023 Journal.<\/em>\u00a0Though they have not registered their copyright claim with the federal government, the intervening group that purports to own Hale\u2019s writings also purports to hold the copyright to those writings. We consider the ownership claim to be dubious at best and the copyright claim to be without merit. We also believe that the fair use doctrine would prohibit the successful litigation of any copyright infringement claim that might be brought against us for publishing this journal. Nonetheless, we chose not to publish the journal until we had secured proper legal representation in the event a frivolous copyright infringement claim were to be brought against us in federal court. I am pleased to announce today that, in the event a copyright infringement claim is brought against us, we are now represented by the Dhillon Group, the premiere law firm in the country representing conservative groups and organizations<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The Covenant Killer\u2019s 2023 Journal<\/em>\u00a0is now downloadable to everyone at our website,\u00a0The Tennessee Star<\/strong><\/em>. We encourage every interested party, and especially every media organization, to download this handwritten document, read it, and write as many stories as you want about it,” Leahy announced.<\/p>\n

Download it in its entirety\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Star News Digital Media, which owns and operates The Star, and Leahy are plaintiffs in both the Tennessee lawsuit that sought to compel MNPD to release Hale’s writings as well as the\u00a0federal lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0seeking the same from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The extensive materials were eventually shared with The Tennessee Star after requests for a copy of the documents left behind by Hale were repeatedly refused by MNPD and the FBI. Litigation regarding the release of those records is ongoing.<\/p>\n

A portion of Hale’s spiral notebook, which reportedly contains details of her operational plan of attack, was\u00a0leaked by conservative commentator Steven Crowder<\/a>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n

“Rather than an ideologically driven composition,” The Tennessee Star interprets Hale’s trove of writings as a collection of ramblings, “in which Hale sporadically wrote her thoughts in the months and years preceding her devastating attack.”<\/p>\n

In previously uncovered entries, Hale wrote extensively about her gender identity, including authoring a three-page entry, titled\u00a0“My Imaginary Penis,”<\/a>\u00a0in which she divulged her sexual fantasies of experiencing intercourse as a boy.<\/p>\n

There, she said she acted out these perverse thoughts by creating sexual scenes with her stuffed animals.<\/p>\n

“I can pretend to be them [and] do the things boys do [and] experience my boy self as Tony,” Hale said of her “stuffed baby doll,” which she wrote “is like the boy I am in another form.”<\/p>\n

Hale proceeded to describe simulating sex between the “stuffed boy doll” and another toy over the course of hours. She also took pictures of the roleplaying.<\/p>\n

“God, I am such a pervert,” Hale wrote. “I waste too much time in my fantasies.”<\/p>\n

At another point, she said, “My penis exists in my head. I swear to god I’m a male.”<\/p>\n

Also in her journal, Hale\u00a0expressed frustration over being “misgendered,”<\/a>\u00a0which makes her “not want to exist.”<\/p>\n

“I’m just damn [tired] of being called [and] identified by a gender I am not,” Hale said, displeased with her female figure.<\/p>\n

“So now [because] of you, I wish death on myself cause of the pure hatred of my female gender,” Hale declared.<\/p>\n

On February 21, 2023, an irate Hale wrote, “I was called a woman, lady, and ma’am all in the same day.” In capital letters, she penned, “I hate everything about my gender,” adding, “everything hurts.”<\/p>\n

Later, she expressed glee over being greeted with male pronouns.<\/p>\n

“I was actually identified as a male today and it felt right but embarrassed of my female body,” Hale wrote. In uppercase letters, she exclaimed, “I should not be in this body!”<\/p>\n

Hale recounted a clerk at a nearby store using masculine language, such as “bud, bro, and man,” when talking to her. Hale described the interaction as “accurate to who I am as a guy inside.”<\/p>\n

“If only all other men [and] boys could see me that way, that my body doesn’t make me a female,” Hale mused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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