CMT’s country music awards show in Austin, Texas, on April 2 was dedicated to the Nashville transgender shooter’s six victims.
But, the show also loudly paid tribute to transgender activists, drawing backlash across social media.
“On March 27, 2023, three 9-year-olds—Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kenney, and Hallie Scruggs, along with Dr. Katerine Koonce, Cynthia Peak, and Mike Hill—walked into the Covenant School and didn’t walk out,” singer Kelsea Ballerini said as she opened the awards show.
“The community of sorrow over this, and the 130 mass shootings in the United States this year alone, stretches from coast to coast,” she said tearfully….