It’s truly as if the news media wish for more transgender psychotics to commit mass murders before offing themselves. Why else would they look at what happened in Minneapolis this week and continue insisting there’s no correlation at all between a potentially violent mental break and the irrational belief that a man can become a woman?
After a gunman identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman — originally Robert before his mother apparently allowed him to legally change his name at 17 — shot up a Catholic school’s church in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the media got to work, both treating the suspected killer as if his gender dysphoria was entirely incidental and belittling anyone who suggested otherwise.
The New York Times captured that dynamic best under the headline, “Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery.” The “her” was a deliberate word choice for a person we’re still learning about a day later. And what we did learn was that, according to the New York Post, Westman deeply regretted his attempts to become female, writing in a journal, “I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself.”
But the Times wants the public to believe there’s nothing significant about being a shooter who tried swapping his gender, so — it’s ma’am!
Throughout the article, the Times refers to Westman as “she” and “her” and then, nine paragraphs in, attacks the people who dared notice that this isn’t the first, second, or third time in recent years where a “transgender” person has committed mass violence. “On social media,” the article said, “some conservative activists have seized on the shooter’s gender identity to broadly portray transgender people as violent or mentally ill.”
Or, more accurately, people who have a memory recalled that similar tragic episodes were carried out by individuals identified as being deep into pronoun play and gender bending ideologies. That includes: 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno in February of last year (also went by “Jeffrey Escalante”); 17-year-old Dylan Jesse Butler the month prior (suspected gender queer activist); 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale in March 2023 (used male pronouns); 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich in November 2022 (claimed to be “nonbinary”); 16-year-old Maya “Alec” McKinney in May 2019 (identified as male); and 26-year-old Snochia Moseley (suspected to be transgender).
For the media, a mass killer’s “gender” and race only matter when it’s a white male, and mental illness is only taken into account when transgender ideology isn’t a factor (or when it can be used to explain away the antisocial conduct of Democrats). It can’t be that way.
There’s no other way to put it. Police identified a severely unwell person afflicted with acute gender depression as the shooter who sprayed bullets into a church, killing two children and injuring at least 17 more. By sidestepping reality, the media are enabling the next maniac to do the same or worse.
Maybe they don’t actually want these things to keep happening. But their commitment to the transgender cause is allowing them to.
