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The press secretary for Arizona governor Katie Hobbs has resigned after a tweet suggesting gun violence against transphobes, just hours after a transgender shooter killed six in a Christian school.

Hobbs' office on Wednesday confirmed the resignation of Josselyn Berry, who had uploaded an image of a woman holding two handguns alongside the caption 'Us when we see transphobes.'

'The Governor does not condone violence in any form,' the governor's office said in a statement. 'This administration holds mutual respect at the forefront of how we engage with one another.' 

The statement added that Berry's Twitter post was 'not reflective of the values of the administration' and that Hobbs, a Democrat, had received and accepted Berry's resignation. 

Berry's controversial tweet came less than 12 hours after Nashville resident Audrey Hale, 28, - who had recently adopted the name Aiden and used he/him pronouns - killed three children and three adults in a mass shooting at the Covenant School Monday. 

Berry - who had only worked for Hobbs since January - shared a shot of actress Gena Rowlands in the 1980 movie 'Gloria.' 

Earlier in the day she had posted: 'If you work in the progressive community and are transphobic, you're not progressive.'

It is not clear what she was referring to, or whether

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