Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Toward A Definition Of Trans Ideology

The excerpt embedded above from yesterday's Morning Meeting with panelists Mark Halperin, Dan Turrentine, and Sean Spicer is a good indication of how clueless mainstreram commentators have been over trans ideology. At 2:20:

HALPERIN: There are people in MAGA who believe that trans culture, or a strain of trans culture, is violent and wants radical change in this country and is using violence to get it. That's a strong belief amongst many in MAGA, and thqt this has been a story that's been covered up by the left and the media for a long time, and that based on what they know, that's at issue here, and they want to go hard after anything that they think is a violent subculture of the trans community and those that support them. What do you think of that, and what do you think the Democratic party's posture should be on that strong belief held by those people??

TURRENTINE: I don't know of other instances of trans people lashing out like that. Perhaps there are some. I don't know. I mean, obviously this issue has been part of our politics now for the last two years, front and center, and I imagine it's going to be part of our politics for the foreseeable future. I don't see examples of the trans community engaging in violence. I know what people in the trans community feel conmes the other way a lot, but I would; hope there is not this kind of, you know, . . . I think it is going to be part of the debate now.

SPICER: There's two examples right off the top of my head, one is Nashville, two is Catholic Annunciation Church last week in Minnesota.

Well, at least give Halperin credit for raising the issue, but on one hand, Turrentine basically says, "It's news to me," while Spicer -- who is a longtime professional Republican edged out early from Trump 45 -- has only the most basic grasp of it. But even Newsweek was on the case back in 2023:

A United Nations investigator is among several voices raising the alarm about a rise in far-left transgender activists, amid reports of some intimidating and physically assaulting those who disagree with them.

In an interview with the British Daily Mail newspaper on Sunday, Reem Alsalem, the international body's special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said it was an "increasing trend" that she had been observing, calling on officials to protect freedom of speech regarding conversations around gender.

. . . The debate around transgender inclusion has often become heated, with both sides facing incendiary remarks and threats of violence. Some transgender activists have distanced themselves from "extreme" rhetoric.

Trantifa is a portmanteau of "transgender" and "Antifa," the latter being itself a truncation of "anti-fascist" and a left-wing movement that rose to prominence in 2017. The antifa movement has faced criticism from right-wing figures, including Donald Trump, who have accused them of acts of violence.

In March, I was making the point that a remarkable number of anti-Tesla vandals and firebombers were trans. In one post, I linked to a piece at Hot Air that identified three, and I added a fourth, but that was before I saw a fifth, Owen McIntire of Kansas City, MO, whose case I brought up yesterday. In fact, there have been additional shootings, at least one at a school, involving trans perps -- Alec McKinney, a trans 16-year-old, killed one and injured eight at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado in 2019.

In fact, there's no authoritative total of trans-involved school shootings, arsons, or other violent crimes. When I go searching for others, I inevitably find them. The conventional response is along the line of "only 1% of all murders are committed by trans people", but that neglects the very small number of trans people in the population. The number of these who go postal seems to be notable.

The Kirk assassination in Utah has surfaced local trans activist groups that appear to have a violent agenda.

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Further,

[A]s state law enforcement and FBI now say they are expanding their investigation to identify if there was a network working with Tyler Robinson (which seems obvious based on the Discord chat), attention is now being paid to militant transgender groups and NGO’s in the Utah area who seem to connect to Robinson and his transgender boyfriend Lance Twiggs.

. . . “Armed Queers SLC” and a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) known as “Utah Global Diplomacy,” partly funded by the UN appear to be two groups in the region with connections to the overall militant transgender movement: a preliminary motive being explored by federal investigators.

Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Stephen Miller has indicated that he will pursue the role dark-money-funded NGOs have played in what amounts to domestic terrorism, especially as it appears to have been connected with the Kirk assassination. But basic to the trans self-image appears to be the idea that some type of vengeance needs to be secured:
But against whom? For what? Who "put them in the wrong body", for instance? The overall justification for violence seems elusive indeed -- we can acknowledge that trans people have a tendency toward it, but the reasons seem to be something added after the fact. They basically just want to be violent. Isn't that odd?

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