By Hank Berrien - The Daily Wire




The “Trans Day of Vengeance” protest scheduled for Washington D.C. for Saturday has been canceled by organizers, who cited a “threat to life and safety.”

Our Rights DC, the co-organizer of the event, issued a Twitter thread announcing the cancellation. The event was to take place at the U.S. Supreme Court.

“This action will not be taking place Saturday due to a credible threat to life and safety,” the organization tweeted. “The safety of our trans community is first priority. This threat is the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community after the Tennessee shooting.”

The group claimed that after Monday’s attack at The Covenent School in Nashville, in which a woman claiming to be transgender killed three nine-year-old children and three adults, transgender-identifying people faced a threat of “genocide.”

“Individuals who had nothing to with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity. This is one of the steps in genocide, and we will continue our efforts to protect trans lives,” Our Rights DC wrote.

“While we wholeheartedly believe in the mission and message we put forth for trans day of vengeance, we must prioritize the safety of our community and the people that make it up,” the group continued. “In an ideal world we would have continued on in defiance of the attempt to silence our right to free expression. However, we lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it.”