The brewing transgender jihad

Facing rejection from Democrats and gay rights groups, gender extremists are turning violent

On January 27 a transgender named Ryan Michael English, also known as Riley Jane, was arrested for attempting to assassinate Scott Bessent, who had just been confirmed as U.S. Treasury Secretary. English was armed with a folding knife and two Molotov cocktails when he surrendered to Capitol police, explicitly stating his intent to kill Bessent.

“This is terrible but I can’t do nothing while Nazis kill my sisters,” he wrote in a note found in his possession. “Sisters” referred to other transgenders. “Fuck them for pushing us so far.” In a statement to police, English said he planned to "depose" political figures and "send a message” that day, where he also intended to kill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

With the dark money funding violent Antifa and BLM protests appearing to have dried up, and Democrat brass distancing themselves from trans command, lone wolf gender extremists are turning homicidal, a worrying trend that is largely ignored, and tacitly encouraged, by leftist media.

“America will regret Trump’s attacks on transgender citizens,” the New York Times editorial board forewarned darkly in a headline this month.

“Trump's anti-trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes in history,” Nazi-brained NPR prodded days after English’s arrest. “Erasing everything that you are: In Trump’s policies, a denial of trans existence,” read the Boston Globe. “It’s Hard to Overstate the Brutal Impact of Trump’s Attack on Trans Americans,” said Slate, ad infinitum.

On election day, when the Associated Press ran a headline reading “Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign’s closing argument,” a 33-year-old project manager for Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin murdered her father with an ice pick in her $800,000 Seattle home. Corey Burke, who is married to a transgender editor at Conde Nast’s trans blog Them, told police she “freaked out” and that there was “something important about Election Day,” calling the gruesome murder of her 67-year-old father an act of “liberation.”

But the trend started well before Trump’s incredible upset, most prominently in 2023 when a trans-identified female opened fire at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., killing six. In her rambling manifesto, which had been suppressed by media and law enforcement, 28-year-old Audrey Hale wrote, “Conservative religion gay shit makes them believe that the child they are given should stay that way,” and that “If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven, then Jesus is a faggot.”

Before Hale, in 2022, a nonbinary shooter murdered five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado; three years earlier, a transgender teen opened fire on a high school in Denver, killing one; in Maryland, in 2019, a 26-year-old transgender named Snochia Moseley killed three co-workers at a Rite-Aid distribution center; In 2023, 40-year-old trans killer Kimbrady Carriker murdered five and injured two children in Philadelphia; last year a trans/nonbinary teen in Iowa opened fire on classmates killing one and injuring several others and a Georgia school shooter who murdered four people expressed “frustration with the acceptance of transgender people.” That same year females suspected of having a trans identity were involved in mass shootings in Houston and Madison, Wisc.

If that weren’t enough, in January, the New York Post reported that a transgender vegan cult may be responsible for at least six murders, including that of a border patrol agent in Vermont. And just last week, authorities arrested a transgender teen in Indiana for planning a Parkland-style school shooting.

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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent," sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov once said. English targeting Bessent seems particularly telling of the frantic, poisonous state of the trans movement. It’s shedding support everywhere. After all, Bessent is openly gay. Why would an assassin single out a fellow member of the so-called “LGBT community” …unless that was the point.

Radical gender activists have been keenly aware of an impending divorce between the LGB and TQ+. This gained further traction last week when Trump’s National Park Service removed references to the T from the Stonewall Monument website—which commemorates the beginning of the gay rights movement. In response, trans activists flooded the Manhattan landmark to protest. It was a major blow to them, realizing their days of being a parasite on the gay rights movement—with all its money and influence—might be coming to an end, and a well-deserved victory for gay-truthers who’ve pushed back against an onslaught of trans historical revisionism.

It makes sense that the sort of pampered narcissists most likely to sport a Queers for Palestine flag might also try to culturally appropriate jihad. While the previous president declared 80 million Americans to be domestic terrorists, all because of one protest-turned-riot outside the Capitol, Trump doesn’t show signs of following in Dementia Stalin’s footsteps even as trans violence appears on the rise.

And for good reason. These are disturbed people who’ve been abused by the enforcers of a corrupt, nonsensical ideology. Americans were never on board with the Biden Administration’s trans supremacy agenda. In fact, they resoundingly rejected it. Today, 79% of Americans approve of banning men who identify as trans from competing in women's sports, according to a New York Times poll. And 72% oppose sex change procedures for minors.

Yet predatory Democrat astroturfing has given the most unglued people in our society a cosmetic sense of validation. After all, if you believe your worth as a human being can be granted by politicians, then you also believe it’s just as easily taken away—and that’s a dangerous thing.