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SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:24 PM Saturday

Conservative media and tabloids are now claiming the shooter of Kirk lived with a trangender person

They will find any way they can to blame a minority for this.

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Conservative media and tabloids are now claiming the shooter of Kirk lived with a trangender person (Original Post) SSJVegeta Saturday OP
I'd rather know what the dimwit was doing for the last 4 years Klarkashton Saturday #1
I think he was in his third year of a trade program or similar... Alice B. Saturday #11
If true... I feel sorry for all the innocent people who will be harrassed or worse from the primitives... WarGamer Saturday #2
"If true" BannonsLiver Saturday #6
Axios seems to have confirmed it SSJVegeta Saturday #8
interesting word choice WhiskeyGrinder Sunday #52
which word? WarGamer Sunday #62
I'm scared about this EnergizedLib Saturday #3
Shooter isnt trans BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday #4
They allege he had a relationship with a roommate EnergizedLib Saturday #7
Good news is that the roommate... SickOfTheOnePct Saturday #10
There was also a bit in The Guardian markodochartaigh Saturday #5
Axios SSJVegeta Saturday #9
Well damn. markodochartaigh Saturday #12
How Greg_In_SF Sunday #42
They already have most of the data. TommyT139 Sunday #47
Of what relevance is this? Mad_Machine76 Saturday #13
That's what they are saying now Diraven Saturday #15
That would be so dumb Mad_Machine76 Saturday #25
Makes it tough to think the shooter is MAGA n/t Shrek Saturday #16
Unfortunately Mad_Machine76 Saturday #26
Yes Lifeafter70 Sunday #43
Exhibit B SSJVegeta Sunday #46
There are trans people who are MAGA. Crunchy Frog Sunday #50
who would be interested in spreading an unconfirmed rumor bigtree Saturday #14
Very bad people. Im very worried about the transgende community now particularly because it has been confirmed by Axios SSJVegeta Saturday #18
What's been confirmed? Lanius Sunday #34
I take it back. I dont think anything has been confirmed at all. SSJVegeta Sunday #35
It's part of the narrative of "leftist" violence that they're trying to build. Crunchy Frog Sunday #51
I wish the right-wing loonies would make up their minds on liberals, progressives and leftists. Lanius Sunday #60
The portrayal of enemies as both strong and weak is one of the characteristics of fascism. Crunchy Frog Sunday #61
Did the roommate pull the trigger? Then what's the fucking point here? chowder66 Saturday #17
The primary issue is that our transgender communities could be in even more danger because of the hateful proaganda SSJVegeta Saturday #19
I get that but it's just beyond ridiculous. First the shooter was said to be trans, then the bullets were trans ideology chowder66 Saturday #20
Its like they have been going out of their way to slmehow fit that into the narrative SSJVegeta Saturday #23
When did "ridiculous" stop maga? Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #57
I know... but I have hope it makes some stop and think, others are a lost cause. chowder66 Sunday #59
I'll give it canetoad Saturday #21
Now the latest I'm seeing is: Diraven Saturday #22
WHAT SSJVegeta Saturday #24
RW propaganda is ridiculous newdeal2 Saturday #28
Oh geez! LeftInTX Saturday #30
Do you have a link to that? I am having trouble finding anything SSJVegeta Sunday #36
Outside of Salt Lake City is it even safe to be trans in Utah Justice Brandeis Saturday #27
They have her picture and name. If it isn't true, then they can sue. LeftInTX Saturday #29
For everything we actually know it's almost looking like they are a cisgendered man being misgendered as transgender. SSJVegeta Sunday #45
My sister is trans... I-teach-kids Saturday #31
Read this from Loomer and connect the dots to see what they're planning; D. Spaulding Sunday #32
Jesus. SSJVegeta Sunday #33
Surely this is the real reason for the killing. Oneironaut Sunday #37
Multiple news articles have said he lived at home with his parents Wiz Imp Sunday #38
I would believe BBC over the New York Post EnergizedLib Sunday #40
Me too SSJVegeta Sunday #44
There's a roommate somewhere TommyT139 Sunday #48
This message was self-deleted by its author Blue Dotty Sunday #39
This video says it's total bullshit Wiz Imp Sunday #41
Fanfiction LostOne4Ever Sunday #49
Just sent this to the friend who literally did the thing the guy in the cartoon did. SSJVegeta Sunday #54
Here is another one you might send to them LostOne4Ever Sunday #58
Act of desperation. Emile Sunday #53
Any way they can D_Master81 Sunday #55
Daily mail literally says that the roommate once praised Biden SSJVegeta Sunday #56

Klarkashton

(3,994 posts)
1. I'd rather know what the dimwit was doing for the last 4 years
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:28 PM
Saturday

After dropping out of college. That doesn't seem important to them.

Alice B.

(621 posts)
11. I think he was in his third year of a trade program or similar...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:48 PM
Saturday

I would have to locate a specific reference but I’ve seen different articles mention it, an electrical apprentice?

ETA - from LA Times
“He later attended Dixie Technical College, where school officials said he was in his third year of study in the electrical apprenticeship program.”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-12/what-we-know-abou

WarGamer

(17,892 posts)
2. If true... I feel sorry for all the innocent people who will be harrassed or worse from the primitives...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:29 PM
Saturday

99.99% of these folks just want to be left alone.

EnergizedLib

(2,799 posts)
3. I'm scared about this
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:29 PM
Saturday

It’s not going to be pretty for us if what these outlets are reporting turns out to be true.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,473 posts)
10. Good news is that the roommate...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:48 PM
Saturday

...is cooperating fully.

There could be some questions about why the roommate didn't report the messages immediately, but the cooperation is a good thing.

markodochartaigh

(4,026 posts)
5. There was also a bit in The Guardian
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:33 PM
Saturday

that said that the shooter was left-wing. This has now been retracted by The Guardian.
Anecdotally, I usually see lots of comments on Yahoo articles like this. This article which is favorable to the left, at least now, seems to have no comments. It seems as if it is not getting attention.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/paper-retracts-claim-that-suspected-kirk-killer-was-left-on-everything/

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
9. Axios
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:43 PM
Saturday
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/13/kirk-suspect-transgender-roommate

Unfortunately it appears to be true. This could lead to a lot of harassment or worse. Really worried for the transgender community.

markodochartaigh

(4,026 posts)
12. Well damn.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:52 PM
Saturday

This is very worrying. I bet a transgender, and maybe lgbtq+, registry may not be far behind.

TommyT139

(1,898 posts)
47. They already have most of the data.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:31 AM
Sunday

(I wish I were kidding.)

Between ID gender marker changes; medical coding -- both mental health diagnoses, if someone had GID/GD (Ge der Identity Disorder, now Gender Dysphoria as a diagnosis (required for any insurance coverage); or just prescriptions for "cross-sex hormones" without a co-occurring diagnosis of, say, hormone-sensitive cancer; or any number of tells from the VA (DD-214 changes, medical care)....those are just off the top of my head. Anything medicaid, but also there are demographic databases for someone who only ever had private insurance. Florida, Texas, and a few other red states started keeping lists of gender marker change requests (even on professional licenses) several years ago.

Remember all that DOGE prying and file copying/exporting...and then Trump telling Peter Thiel in late Spring to combine everything into one database? Trans people have seen this coming a mile away. It's terrifying.

If any of this reminds you of Germany in the late 1930s, you're getting the picture.

Mad_Machine76

(24,898 posts)
13. Of what relevance is this?
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:55 PM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:19 PM - Edit history (1)

Seriously? What does it mean as far as Kirk’s murder?! Did she egg him on about doing it or something?!

Diraven

(1,580 posts)
15. That's what they are saying now
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:04 PM
Saturday

That the motivation for the shooting was defending the honor of his trans lover. So getting rid of trans lovers is the new final solution.

Lifeafter70

(651 posts)
43. Yes
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 01:31 AM
Sunday

I had a customer when I lived in Georgia that was a trans woman. This was in 2010 and she was a very conservative republican not to mention a bigot and racist. I never understood it.

bigtree

(92,542 posts)
14. who would be interested in spreading an unconfirmed rumor
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:00 PM
Saturday

...insinuating that the association with 'trans' or gay' or 'left' is a necessarily nefarious one?

Lanius

(640 posts)
34. What's been confirmed?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:07 AM
Sunday

Law enforcement is investigating that the shooter was possibly motivated by Charlie Kirk spreading hate about trans people. That doesn’t seem very definitive to me yet.

Even if that’s the case, a trans person didn’t pull that trigger. It was a white man from a MAGAt family.

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
35. I take it back. I dont think anything has been confirmed at all.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:28 AM
Sunday

Even the axios article might end up getting retracted when more information comes out.

Crunchy Frog

(28,026 posts)
51. It's part of the narrative of "leftist" violence that they're trying to build.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:02 AM
Sunday

The ultimate objective is to paint all "leftists" liberals and Democrats as violent and dangerous extremists who must be subjected to severe repressions.

Lanius

(640 posts)
60. I wish the right-wing loonies would make up their minds on liberals, progressives and leftists.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 01:07 PM
Sunday

Are leftists peace-loving, gun-hating p*****s, or are we violent extremists who are behind all these shootings? Right-wingers seem confused.

Crunchy Frog

(28,026 posts)
61. The portrayal of enemies as both strong and weak is one of the characteristics of fascism.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:07 PM
Sunday

This isn't confusion, it's part of the playbook.

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
19. The primary issue is that our transgender communities could be in even more danger because of the hateful proaganda
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:24 PM
Saturday

We need to be vigilant in defending them.

chowder66

(11,269 posts)
20. I get that but it's just beyond ridiculous. First the shooter was said to be trans, then the bullets were trans ideology
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:27 PM
Saturday

and now the shooter had a trans partner or roommate. What's next, there were trans people in the next state over?!

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
23. Its like they have been going out of their way to slmehow fit that into the narrative
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:43 PM
Saturday

Its so messed up.

chowder66

(11,269 posts)
59. I know... but I have hope it makes some stop and think, others are a lost cause.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:26 PM
Sunday

It may only be a few that get tired of hating and being irrational all the time but a few is a few. I couldn't keep it up. It would exhaust me psychologically.

canetoad

(19,470 posts)
21. I'll give it
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:35 PM
Saturday

About ten days for the hysteria to subside and see what folks are saying then.

Diraven

(1,580 posts)
22. Now the latest I'm seeing is:
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 10:35 PM
Saturday

That the entire basis for saying the shooter's roommate is trans is because 2 years ago he posted a picture of himself on social media where an AI filter made him look like a Japanese geisha girl.

newdeal2

(4,083 posts)
28. RW propaganda is ridiculous
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:34 PM
Saturday

They cherrypick things to try to blame the left and the media just picks it up without any responsibility.

Wait for the damn facts. Also the shooter isn’t dead and he can speak for himself.

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
45. For everything we actually know it's almost looking like they are a cisgendered man being misgendered as transgender.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:20 AM
Sunday

One indicator is if they are transgender, it seems unusual for them to keep their original name. Not impossible, but I would guess unlikely.

I-teach-kids

(15 posts)
31. My sister is trans...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:48 PM
Saturday

As abhorrent as Charlie Kirk was. If somebody murdered him for her, short of legitimate self defense. For her own protection, I would ask her to come forward. “SHE” did not commit a crime….

D. Spaulding

(387 posts)
32. Read this from Loomer and connect the dots to see what they're planning;
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:01 AM
Sunday
How much do you want to bet we are going to find out there is a Trans terror cell that groomed Tyler Robinson and possibly even provided him with the gun to kill Charlie?

It seems like this was very pre-meditated .

There are literally shooting clubs now where Trannies meet up to learn how to shoot rifles and they wear shirts that say “Kill fascists” and “the 2nd Amendment is for shooting cops”.

They are training for war.

It’s very dangerous.

Who provided him with the rifle he used to kill Charlie Kirk?


Yes, to us normals it's easy to just dismiss the loon, but does anyone else sense the direction they're going in here?

Wiz Imp

(7,176 posts)
38. Multiple news articles have said he lived at home with his parents
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 01:03 AM
Sunday
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8wl2y66p9o

The man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, a Utah native who had been living with his parents "for a long time", authorities said.

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
44. Me too
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:18 AM
Sunday

Axios referred to the roommate as transgender too though. Alas they very well might have been piggypacking off other sources...

TommyT139

(1,898 posts)
48. There's a roommate somewhere
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:37 AM
Sunday

...because Tyler messaged them to retrieve the weapon.

Perhaps a former roomie, or at college. Hardly matters -- transcripts will give details, if anything goes to court. Or the indictment, which should be sooner.

Response to SSJVegeta (Original post)

D_Master81

(2,199 posts)
55. Any way they can
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:07 AM
Sunday

They are trying so hard to pin this on a trans person to vilify and take away a trans person’s right to own a gun. Even if he did so what? He lived with someone….oh no!

SSJVegeta

(1,477 posts)
56. Daily mail literally says that the roommate once praised Biden
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:10 AM
Sunday

They are reallly scraping the bottom of the barrel to attach a liberal to this any way they can. I bet they find out thats not true too, but Lance's uncle's cousin's yoga teacher probably did. So clearly the liberal were responsible for the shooting.

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