Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the full release of the Covenant school shooter manifesto would allow a glimpse into how treatments for mental health diagnoses, specifically when it comes to transgender individuals, have dramatically changed over the last decade.
On March 27, 2023, Audrey Elizabeth Hale – a biological woman who identified as a man – shot and killed six individuals inside of the Covenant School in Nashville before being shot and killed by police.
Earlier this year, The Star was the first to report that Hale was a 22-year mental health patient of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and other institutions from 2001 until the time of the horrific school shooting.
“I think this is a really big part of MAHA – Make America Healthy Again. That involves getting into these mental health institutions and figuring out what went wrong over the past 15 years. What happened between Diagnostic Standard of Medicine 4 and 5 where everything went so horribly awry,” Pappert explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Pappert added that the review of Hale’s treatments at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and other institutions may also end up being the “first domino” that falls to expose the transgender movement from a medical standpoint.
“I think this could be the moment, or this could be the first domino, at least, that really helps us understand that this transgender movement is harmful, it’s very profitable to a small number of people, and it’s not doing anything to actually address mental health,” Pappert said.
