Leading Off: The right wing is using the transgender identity of the shooter to fuel hatred towards the entire trans community. The Texas house passes a bathroom ban with massive penalties. And two North Virginia school systems fight back against Trump’s Department of Education. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

The Tennessee Star and theocratic fascist Matt Walsh have recently reported on writings they allege to be from mass shooter Aiden Hale’s journal, passages which quickly become part of a “perverse” manifesto when the person who penned them just so happens to be trans.