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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative 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.

Klarkashton
(3,994 posts)After dropping out of college. That doesn't seem important to them.
Alice B.
(621 posts)I would have to locate a specific reference but Ive 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)99.99% of these folks just want to be left alone.
BannonsLiver
(19,628 posts)Not pictured: 🤞
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(25,689 posts)WarGamer
(17,892 posts)EnergizedLib
(2,799 posts)Its not going to be pretty for us if what these outlets are reporting turns out to be true.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,234 posts)EnergizedLib
(2,799 posts)Who was
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,473 posts)...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)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 This has now been retracted by The Guardian.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)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)This is very worrying. I bet a transgender, and maybe lgbtq+, registry may not be far behind.
Greg_In_SF
(590 posts)would that work?
TommyT139
(1,898 posts)(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)Last edited Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:19 PM - Edit history (1)
Seriously? What does it mean as far as Kirks murder?! Did she egg him on about doing it or something?!
Diraven
(1,580 posts)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.
Mad_Machine76
(24,898 posts)if they want to try to go there
Shrek
(4,309 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,898 posts)There are also right-wing Trans people too, incredibly
Lifeafter70
(651 posts)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.
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)Crunchy Frog
(28,026 posts)One of the leading J6 terrorists was a trans woman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Marie_Watkins
bigtree
(92,542 posts)...insinuating that the association with 'trans' or gay' or 'left' is a necessarily nefarious one?
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)Lanius
(640 posts)Law enforcement is investigating that the shooter was possibly motivated by Charlie Kirk spreading hate about trans people. That doesnt seem very definitive to me yet.
Even if thats the case, a trans person didnt pull that trigger. It was a white man from a MAGAt family.
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)Even the axios article might end up getting retracted when more information comes out.
Crunchy Frog
(28,026 posts)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)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)This isn't confusion, it's part of the playbook.
chowder66
(11,269 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)We need to be vigilant in defending them.
chowder66
(11,269 posts)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)Its so messed up.
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,424 posts)chowder66
(11,269 posts)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)About ten days for the hysteria to subside and see what folks are saying then.
Diraven
(1,580 posts)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.
Wait. And even Axios was fooled by that??
newdeal2
(4,083 posts)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 isnt dead and he can speak for himself.
LeftInTX
(33,981 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)Justice Brandeis
(293 posts)I'm wondering.
LeftInTX
(33,981 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)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)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
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D. Spaulding
(387 posts)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.
Its 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?
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)
Oneironaut
(6,126 posts)
Wiz Imp
(7,176 posts)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.
EnergizedLib
(2,799 posts)But thats just me.
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)Axios referred to the roommate as transgender too though. Alas they very well might have been piggypacking off other sources...
TommyT139
(1,898 posts)...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.
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Wiz Imp
(7,176 posts)I believe Texas Paul knows what he is talking about
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TCa8BqfpKYo
LostOne4Ever
(9,713 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,713 posts)
Same source!
Emile
(37,555 posts)D_Master81
(2,199 posts)They are trying so hard to pin this on a trans person to vilify and take away a trans persons right to own a gun. Even if he did so what? He lived with someone .oh no!
SSJVegeta
(1,477 posts)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.