OPINION:
In living my entire life as a transgender person, I have grown cynical and untrusting.
As news the mass school shooting in the British Columbia town of Tumbler broke last week, here was what we knew: A “female in a brown dress” went into “her” school and killed nine (later changed to eight) students and wounded 27 (“Suspect in Canada shooting is identified as an 18-year-old with history of police visits to her home,” Web, Feb. 12).
The suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar, reportedly killed two family members before going to the school.
Although most of Tumbler knew the alleged killer was a transgender student, the local constabulary and the entirety of the Canadian and U.S. press corps were quick to describe Van Rootselaar as a “female in a brown dress.” That remained the narrative until the suspect’s uncle told the world that the shooter was male-to-female transgender.
Why are the media hiding the fact that transgender people are going around killing others? Because the media, local governments, police and the medical industry have their own reasons for not allowing us to connect the dots around transgender violence.
Obfuscating the fact that transgender people are committing these violent and horrific crimes protects the narrative that cross-sex living is a viable and healthy lifestyle choice.
As more acts of homicidal rage are perpetuated by transgender people, the entities that created these confused monsters must erase their fingerprints from the crime scenes, so to speak. Now that it’s known the Tumbler shooting suspect was transgender, the media will quickly begin to try to hide the story, and those the shooter killed will never have their stories told.
Those who support transgender choice refuse to allow us to ask the most basic and vitally important question about all these killings: What role did transgender medicine, treatment and drugs play in these murders? Until we, as a society, begin asking this question, these killings will continue.
RENE JAX
Author, “Transgender Killers: The Monsters That Walk Among Us”
New York, New York
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