Just What Is "Gender Affierming Care"? And What Is "Trans Ideology"?

These are questions that nobody's asked in the wake of horrific shootings within just two weeks, the Annunciation Church attack on August 27 and the Charlie Kirk assassination on September 10. The Annunciation shooter, Robin Westman, accordiong to reports, had previously undergone some type of medical treatment for gender transition, although he had apparently discontinued it at some point:

In a twisted handwritten journal he shared on YouTube before the massacre — much of which is encrypted in a homespun code of Russian Cyrillic script and English words — Westman groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition.

“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,” he wrote, according to a translation by The Post.

. . . “I can’t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I will probably chop it on the day of the attack.”

. . . “I regret being trans.. I wish I was a girl I just know I cannot achieve that body with the technology we have today. I also can’t afford that,” he said.

Elsewhere, he wrote:

Gender and weed [redacted] up my head. I wish I never tried experimenting with either. Don’t let your kids smoke weed or change gender until they are like seventeen.

Lance Twiggs, the trans romantic partner of Tyler Robinson, apparently referred to hormone treatment as part of his medical program for transition on social media:

In November 2024, Twiggs posted about his anxiety with injecting cross-sex hormones. Replying to a thread on injection pain, he wrote: “seriously. sometimes it’s just muscle memory, sometimes i gotta get buzzed on something so i’m not too anxious about it.”

In another post, he appears to have at least a general familiarity with hormone treatments:

Old Reddit comments linked to Lance Twiggs under the username “lancelott3” have resurfaced, showing discussions about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In one post, Twiggs explained that hip growth depends largely on genetics, while HRT can slow beard growth but not fully stop facial hair.

Back in May, I discussed the case of Owen McIntire of Kansas City, MO, who allegedly firebombed a Tesla dealership but was released from custody "due to 'serious and ongoing' medical needs — which include gender-affirming medical care that requires daily medication as well as mental health support, according to KMBC." Just what did his medical treatment consist of? Are there any similarities among the treatments violent trans offenders have received?

Similar questions have been raised over Audrey/Aiden Hale, the female-to-male trans shooter at the Nashville, TN Covenant School, when it was revealed that she had been a mental health patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from the age of six to the day of her death. That therapy presumably included "gender affirming care", but questions that were raised at the time have never been answered.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representative for the state of Georgia, tweeted a statement regarding the shooting, implying that the shooter's testosterone level was a reason for the shootings.

"How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking?" she tweeted. "Everyone can stop blaming guns now."

Journalist Andy Ngô also suggested that the hormones may have contributed to the crime.

"Was the #Nashville trans mass shooter on cross-sex hormones (in this case, testosterone)? Women committing mass shootings are exceptionally rare, but if Audrey "Aiden" Hale took testosterone, it could explain part of the male-typical mass violence the Christian school tragically experienced," he tweeted.

The Tyler Robinson-Lance Twiggs connection brought renewed attention to the 2024 case of another Washington, UT male-to-female trans offender:

Mia Bailey, 28, was arrested Wednesday and charged with 11 felony counts related to the double homicide of parents Joseph, 70, and Gail Bailey, 69, and the attempted murder of her brother, according to the Washington City Police Department.

"We have some good news. We have the suspect in custody." St. George Police Officer Tiffany Mitchell announced in a Facebook live broadcast, telling residents of the Bloomington Hills and Fort Pierce they were no longer urged to shelter in place. "Everyone is safe. No one else was injured."

. . . Bailey filed a petition to change her name and gender legally in July 2023, according to 5th District Court records reviewed by KSL. She was granted both in August 2023, with the court writing that "there is clear and convincing evidence that [Bailey] has transitioned to the sex sought in the petition and a uniform manner for at least six months," including "evidence of appropriate clinical care or treatment for gender transitioning or change provided by a licensed medical professional."

According to The Gaterway Pundit,

Robinson’s parents and Bailey’s parents both lived in Washington, Utah, approximately 5 minutes apart, in a small town of 27,993 people as of 2020.

. . . Mia Bailey, 28, born Collin Troy Bailey, identifies as transgender and has confessed to fatally shooting his parents, Joseph and Gail Bailey, in their Washington City home at 1039 E. Chinook Drive, St. George, on June 18, 2024.

. . . In a later incident while in custody, Bailey was accused of assaulting two correctional officers in October 2024.

But this brings up another question. Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs belonged to what appears to have been close-knit social media groups whose posts suggest foreknowledge of the Kirk shooting:

[A]s details emerge, a web of disturbing connections points to a possible broader conspiracy involving online radicalism, transgender networks, and even hints of foreknowledge among left-wing activists.

Adding to the chilling narrative are Robinson's own flippant jokes made in Discord chats with 20 other users while he was on the run. He reportedly quipped to friends that a "doppelganger" was responsible for the shooting after the FBI released images of the suspect.

. . . On September 9, an account under the handle "NajraGalvz" posted, "Charlie Kirk is coming to my college tomorrow I rlly hope someone evaporates him literally," followed several hours later by, "Lets just say something big will happen tomorrow," accompanied by a grinning dog image.

Earlier, on September 5, a social media user named "Fujoshincel" teased "something BIG coming soon" and urged followers to watch the news; after the shooting on September 10, the same account gloated, "Well that’s that" and "Another Chud Bites the Dust."

A transgender user followed by Robinsom's boyfriend Lance Twiggs on X, and who followed them back, celebrated with "WE F-CKING DID IT" as reports emerged, followed by "LET IT DIE. LET IT DIE" when Kirk was reported to be in critical condition.

According to the Urban Dictionaty, "a 'chud' is a person, usually male, who holds reactionary or far-right sociopolitical views." I asked the web, "What is trans ideology?" "AI" replied,

The term "trans ideology" is a pejorative and misleading phrase used primarily by opponents of transgender rights and visibility to frame gender identity as a political movement rather than an aspect of human diversity. There is no single, unified "trans ideology," but rather a range of academic concepts, social movements, and lived experiences related to gender identity and expression.

I'll agree that there's no single, unified "trans ideology", in large part because the most visible trans people we've begun to recognize are deeply addled. On the other hand, in the manifestos and journals they leave behind, as well as in social media posts to trans-affirming groups, there seems to be a deep sense of aggression against the non-trans-affirming world, to the point that there seems to be a general consensus that parents and other figures who don't accept trans identity should be killed, or at least are the ones at fault for the violence trans people commit.

Certainly we don't see any internalized sense that these views are in any way bizarre. Could recreational drug use, mentioned by both Robin Westman and Lance Twiggs, somehow increase the bad effects of hormone treatment? And why do we see such frequent conjunction of gender affirmng treatment with therapy for serious psychiatric problems, as in the cases of Audrey Hale and Owen McIntire? To what extent was Tyler Robinson, who wasn't trans himself, somehow converted to "trans ideology" so that he shared the view of his trans friends that Christopher Kirk should be killed?

You know what? I think Secretary Kennedy is right to be investigating the unacknowledged effects of vaccines -- but isn't it at least just as important that there be a serious investigation of what passes for "gender affirming care"?