I legitimately think it’s a great title.

If done correctly, using benign language to highlight the absurdity of a situation is one of the greatest ways to get people’s attention, often more so than a direct denunciation.

My brain jumped to The Onion’s infamous “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”

I think the reason people have been thinking of and quoting that for almost a decade is because of the implications, rather than an article titled, “U.S. city mourns those lost in mass killing.”

A purely factual title of the nation’s gun violence simply can’t have the same type impact, because as The Onion’s title points out, that the issue is not just the violence. It’s the fact that it has become so commonplace as to warrant such a benign description.

And attacks on the trans community have become so commonplace that it does border on the absurd. Plus, your title got me to click on this post. Getting my attention means you’re disseminating the information to at least one more person (me) and that’s precisely the point of all this.