In “the fifth major mass shooting this year by a transgender shooter,” five people in Philadelphia were killed by a Black Lives Matter activist who wore women’s clothes. The New York Post reports:
The rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter who shared gun-toting memes on social media.
Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was nabbed shortly after the bloodshed in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood Monday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing sources….On his Facebook page, Carriker posted two pictures of himself wearing a bra, a women’s top and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before the alleged shooting.
He also regularly posts about supporting Black Lives Matter, including supporting workers who protested in the Strike For Black Lives in July 2020.
Police said the 40-year-old male suspect was armed with a rifle, pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and bulletproof vest when he fatally shot four men on the street and then chased and killed a fifth man inside a home.
A 2-year-old boy was shot four times in the legs, while a 13-year-old boy also suffered gunshot wounds to his legs, according to cops.
As Hot Air notes, “it is not a coincidence that a number of mass shootings lately have been carried out by transgender-identifying people. Alphabet ideology radicalizes people and convinces them that they are hated by and under constant threat from the larger society.”
As journalist Howie Carr observes, the progressive-dominated media is barely covering these mass shootings by transgender shooters, even as it plays up any mass shooting by a cisgender white man: “This story will vanish like the transgender mass murders in Nashville & Colorado Springs. Doesn’t fit The Party’s narrative.”
As David Strom notes,
a volatile combination has been created, putting people with obvious mental instability in the middle of a culture war battle, and nothing good can come from this. The vast majority of the people stoking this battle are “allies,” rather than people suffering directly from gender dysphoria, although there are plenty of activists who are transgender themselves.
The rhetoric justifying the mass movement to trans the kids is based upon a fiction: that failing to “recognize” children for “who they are” will lead them to kill themselves, and is itself an act of violence and an attempt to perpetrate genocide.
First of all, while people with gender dysphoria are indeed at higher risk of suicide and every effort should be made to help them, there is simply no evidence for and substantial evidence to the contrary that gender “affirmation” will reduce suicidal ideation. The evidence, in fact, is that suicide risk peaks after gender “affirming” treatment over several years. There is zero genuine evidence that gender affirmation is a cure for or even a treatment for dysphoria.
Gender-affirming treatment involves things such as amputations of body parts that would violate medical ethics in any other context. As “world class expert on gender distress, Dr Stephen Levine” notes, “Since doctors gave up performing lobotomies to treat psychiatric disorders many decades ago, gender dysphoria is the ONLY psychiatric diagnosis which doctors are attempting to treat by surgery.”
Society often pays for transgender people’s sex change surgeries, which sometimes cost over $200,000, because Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) often requires insurers to cover sex changes and gender-reassignment surgery.
But sex-change surgeries are frequently a bad investment, because they often have life-threatening complications. “The truth about transgender surgery” is that “Just 16% of gender dysphoria patients go through with the operation, but up to half suffer life-threatening complications,” reports the London Daily Mail. “Up to half of trans men and women suffer post-op issues or pain so severe they need medical attention or additional surgery months later….Patients are often left with infections, pain and difficulty using the toilet or having sex post-surgery….the Women’s College Hospital (WCH) in Ontario, Canada, earlier this year found that more than half of trans women who had ‘bottom’ surgery were in so much pain years later they needed medical attention.”
A transgender teen died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.
Even transgender people who demand to receive sex-change surgery admit that the results are not great. A transgender activist conceded that in a New York Times op-ed, “My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy.” As Andrea Long Chu wrote in that op-ed:
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to.
She still wants the sex change, but doctors don’t have magical powers, so “sex change” surgery can’t fully give her the body she wants. Hence, Chu’s admission that she won’t be happy, even after her sex change, due to the physical pain and discomfort that result from a sex change, and the artificial, subpar nature of the sex organ that doctors create in sex-change surgery.
The fact that so many transgender people never get a surgical sex change suggests that such procedures are not a great investment, and that taxpayers and insurers should not be forced to pay for them.
Some female-to-male gender transitions occur due to social contagion. The fact that transgender identity sometimes spreads among girls through social contagion has been confirmed by yet another study. As PJ Media notes, “A study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior confirms the common-sense conclusion many observers…have long drawn” that the rapid rise in the number of people identifying as transgender is “sociogenic.” “The findings were interesting on several fronts: ‘gender transition’ is driven by social pressure; females are by psychological disposition more susceptible to the ‘trans’ social contagion; and mentally ill youth were more likely than non-mentally ill to ‘transition.’”
The Daily Caller reported on a study with similar results in November: “A study published in the scientific journal Plos One surveyed 256 parents whose children experienced rapid onset of gender dysphoria. The vast majority (86.7%) of adolescents either started spending more time online or were in a friend group with at least one other transgender person prior to identifying as transgender, according to the study,” the Daily Caller noted. “The study was meant to explore growing reports from parents of their children suddenly adopting transgender identities after puberty after apparent peer influence. In 36.8% of the friendship groups reported in the study, parent participants said the majority of its members identified as transgender. Parents also reported a decline in their children’s mental health and in parent-child relationships following adoption of transgender identities.”
Police have identified the five people killed in Philadelphia by Kimbrady Carriker as Daujan Brown, 15, Lashyd Merritt, 20, Dymir Stanton, 29, Joseph Wamah Jr., 31, and Ralph Moralis, 59. Investigators believe Wamah may have been the first victim. He was found dead inside a home hours after the shooting stopped.
