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Transgenders and Tragedy

Linda Harvey

The body count is growing-- murders at the hands of gender pretenders. Are these confused people disproportionately prone to violence? Unless they receive help to walk away from these delusions, the clear answer is yes.

An article in 2024 in The Epoch Times had this headline: “Concerns Grow Over Links Between Transgenderism and Violence.” The article reviewed the little-publicized fact that some recent mass murders were committed by people who identified as the opposite sex with a history of a “volatile cocktail of mental health issues and body-altering chemicals.”

Robert, aka Robin, Westman had regrets about his identity as a woman. But not enough to backtrack from his confused sexuality and obvious mental health issues and possibly demon possession, before planning a mass murder of children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27. Two children died and 17 more people, mostly children, were injured.

Westman was previously a student at the school. This has many similarities to the Nashville Covenant School shooting in 2023.

His clueless mother, Mary Grace Westman, previously worked at the school and signed off on his trans name change several years ago. May God forgive her. Parents of these young shooters need to be pressed for explanations about their child’s psychopathology.

She was apparently a Catholic and yet couldn’t suspect demon possession?

And where was Dad?

The pattern is becoming clear, and still Democratic Party operatives ( Walz, Frey, etc.) are more concerned about sticking to their insane agenda ( gun control, no “transphobia”) than saving the lives of American children.

It’s not about guns. It’s about evil in the hearts of humans. How does it get there? How can it be removed?

Gender deviant people embrace one huge personal delusion, but why stop there? Among the horrific lies Westman embraced (according to his social media) were that the Holocaust was insufficient and more Jews needed to be killed, along with President Trump; that depraved sexuality should be celebrated (he displayed a pride flag on social media);  that the Sandy Hook tragedy was something to be studied and admired; and Christians should be hated.

Like most who adopt “LGBTQ” conduct, he was easy to emotionally manipulate into a totally upside down system of “ethics,” where evil is good and good, evil. He drew a target with Jesus as the focus, and a picture where he talked to what appears to be a demon in a mirror.

How long until the American left admits the truth that not only is the transgender identity a sign of mental illness, it should always be discouraged among children and teens? Young trans shooters are implicated in a disproportionate number of recent incidents, some of which they completed and others where they were intercepted before finalizing deadly plans.

Libs of Tiktok reported that on August 28, Sasha Shakur, a transgender Massachusetts man identifying as a woman, allegedly murdered a man. Shakur’s home displayed radical graffiti including the terms BLM, Free Palestine, and Defund the Police.

 In a 2024 shooting at Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston, the shooter was said to be a female but also identified at times as a male. Among those injured was this person’s seven- year- old son, apparently used as a human shield. The shooter, who was killed by off duty police on site, had a history of law-breaking including assault, forgery, marijuana possession, theft, and more.

The weapon used by the shooter at the church had a message scrawled on it reading “Free Palestine.”

The most prominent other recent case was Audrey Hale, the woman who shot grade school children, teachers and staff at a Nashville Christian school in 2023. Her manifesto included disturbed, racist views, even though she was white. But it also turns out, she identified as male and was medicating with testosterone.

A man in Colorado Springs who identified as “non-binary” killed five people and wounded 18 at a homosexual night club in 2022. In another incident at an Iowa middle school in January 2024,  a 17- year- old killed a sixth grader, wounded six others, and then killed himself. This young man called himself “gender fluid.”

Other recent shootings by gender confused people occurred at a Rite Aid store in Maryland and another male identifying as a female shooter was arrested in Colorado before his goal to shoot people at schools and churches could be carried out. Another was arrested in Illinois before he committed the crimes he had planned.

In 2019 a Denver teen who identified as transgender killed one and wounded eight others at his school.

And then there’s the cult-like group of transgenders who call themselves Zizians, linked to  a string of murders in recent years.

 It’s not just murder. Social media posts from transgenders encouraging violence are increasing, while the mainstream media refuses to track this or call them out.

Among the many violent protests on campuses and in state capitols around the country was an assault on Riley Gaines at San Francisco State in 2023 after a speech about the problem of gender confused males in female sports. She had to hunker down for hours before the insane trans crowd and their allies dispersed.

And we do have real and quite alarming information on the threat by men posing as women, either sincerely or as a predatory ruse. A video from several years ago, “Women: Decide for Yourselves,” documents numerous criminal incidents of male-on-female attacks, voyeurism, and violence after disturbed men entered women’s bathrooms and private spaces dressed as females.

It’s frustrating to try to access information on crimes committed by males posing as women. The search engines keep flipping to the “victimization” of anyone who identities as transgender. It’s pretty clear that a cover-up is going on, with stats on gender confused males convicted of violent crimes not isolated for analysis. What information we do have shows that males posing as females still offend, especially in sex crimes,  at rates at least as high as the general male population.

For multiple reasons, medical professionals should not prescribe children powerful, possibly mood-altering opposite sex drugs, but instead should use the responsible approach of watchful waiting. Most young people come to accept their biological sex.

All deserve a complete evaluation of mental health issues, to protect themselves and others. All bans on “reparative therapy” ( chosen talk therapy) should be lifted. And all “gender clinics” for minors should be closed down immediately.

Even more importantly, they should all hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and God’s beautiful, intentional design of each of them as either male or female. That perspective might bring light and healing into the minds of otherwise dark souls bent on destruction.