WEBVTT - Fake Transgender Terrorists 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:07.360 Also media, Welcome to it could happen here. The show 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.559 about things falling apart, and often what's falling apart is 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.159 kind of our general agreed upon sense of what reality is, 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.360 and that's kind of what we're talking about here. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:16.799 Today. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.279 We're going to talk about the latest batch of new 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:25.720 transgender conspiracy theories. And to join me in this exciting 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.960 journey is Mia Wong. Hello. Mia. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.680 You know, why is it or whatever? We're covering transgender conspiracies. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.519 It's not like conspiracies that trans people made up. It's 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.839 always conspiracies about trans people. It's like, like, can we 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:39.800 never get one that? 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.400 Like often I can't remember the last time I had 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.879 like a positive Pride Month episode, which I feel kind 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.760 of bad about, but I don't know. It's still an 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.519 interesting topic and I've not seen this discussed as much 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.279 as that should be. And you know, last week I 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.360 really thought I was going to have, you know, a 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.080 difficult work week researching Trump pornography. I thought that'd be like, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.560 you know, the low part of my month. But it 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.560 turns out spending three days sifting through mass shooter data 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.080 is actually much worse, much worse than looking through Trump board. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:13.880 So jaris can, I can, I can? 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.080 I can? I recommend that you two spend your time 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.520 listening to a bunch of rioters talking about the absolute 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.080 worst time of your life. Much better, all right, so 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.400 let's get into it. We're gonna talk first about video games. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.640 I'm gonna quote a tweet from a kind of failure 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.200 of a far right influencer, which is exciting because we're 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.920 mostly gonna be talking about successful ones. But is this 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.800 guy named ben Ko uk flag in bio, so opinion 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:45.880 immediately discarded. But he has said a few days ago, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:50.520 quote Activision's Call of Duty has added transgender bullets to 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.320 the game in honor of Pride Month, so you can 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:58.480 literally play as a transgender mass shooter unquote. This tweet 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.280 was almost ripped word for word by Ian Miles. Chung 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.320 basically said the exact same thing, except you said role play, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.520 not play. Extremely funny, and I did not realize the 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.200 bullets themselves identified as trance. But good for she her 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.280 they them, I guess. So we started to see this 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.360 claim repeated through the anti trans far right grifter media 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.720 space Right limbs of TikTok said that quote Call of 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.640 Duty is now enabling kids to role play being a 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.079 literal trans terrorist. And for some reason, whenever libs of 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:38.200 TikTok writes terrorists, she asterix out the o's. I don't 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.760 know why, but this, this, this started to pick up steam. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.280 There was an article in Glenn Beck's The Blaze quote 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:48.519 call of Duty Pride bundle let's players simulate murder using 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:53.120 trans flag adorned guns and bullets. I'm so excited for 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.200 these people to think to find out about counter strike there. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.920 There are gonna be literally so many, so many articles 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.040 just have the video cliff of the thing in place 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.799 at the an words says terrorists win. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.440 The Quartering wrote, call of Duty is selling trans pride 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:14.679 bullets whatevery mass shooter wants. So what's going on here? 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.200 Cause this, you know, if you're not as online as 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.120 some of us some other people are, you know this 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.520 is maybe confusing. Why are they saying that trans people 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.560 are all mass shooters? Now? What's going on? And you know, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.880 and also if you're thinking it's kind of odd that 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.639 there would be a Call of Duty update where you 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.440 can literally play as a transgender mass shooter and shoot 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.240 transgender bullets, you would be right because that never happened. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.400 It's false. No, way, not this time, we created it. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.000 Not this time, No, not this time. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.840 So let's get into what's really going on with this 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.080 Call of Duty Pride update, and then we'll discuss why 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.280 so many of these far right influences are pushing this 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.320 kind of trans terrorist story. So on June first, Activision 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.560 did release an update for the terrible new Call of 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.320 Duty in Warfare three. It contained anime mecha skins and 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.040 seven free weapon skins themed after various Pride flags. Now, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.120 some would argue that the mechasuits are essentially also Pride themed, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.880 but I digress. For this Pride Weapon Camo pack, it 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.440 will color your gun with the flag of your choosing. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.159 One of the said flags is the blue, pink and 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.719 white trans flag. Yet if you apply the trans skin 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.320 to any of the regular guns in the game, the 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.120 bullets will not be trans'd. So what gives without the 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.000 transgender bullets, how is anyone supposed to literally roleplay a 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.240 mass shooter like libs of tech Talk and Ian Miles 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.920 Chung say we can. So it turns out these quote 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.599 unquote transgender bullets were in fact not intentionally added to 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.440 the game in honor of Pride Month, and are most 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.039 likely a bug that affects one single gun when one 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.599 exclusive attachment is equipped. I'm going to quote from Kotaku 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.640 quote Modern Warfare three's M four came with a special 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.280 Soul Harvester weapon blueprint, which includes a skin and a 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.919 specific attachment for the M four and quote unquote tracer 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.200 which are colorful AMMO options that also leave traces of 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.800 different visual effects like paint splatters or rose petals. This 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.920 special blueprint was for people who spend one hundred dollars 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.839 to purchase the Vault edition of the game. Based on 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.760 Kataku's testing, it appears the quote unquote trans bullets only 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.880 appear when applying the transgender flag Camo skin on this 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.520 specific weapon blueprint. It's unclear this is a bug. At 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.720 one point during testing, the bullets in the cartridge were 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.240 only the pink colors in the flag, or is just 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.240 an extremely adosyncratic reflection of how Call of Duty's complex 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.880 shader system interacts across thousands of items and cosmetics. During testing, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.279 any other Camo skin applied to the M four Soul 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 Harvester blueprint resulted in bullets in the cartridge changing the 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.880 color to match that skin. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:43.760 Unquote. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.719 Now I do think it's a little bit silly that 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.880 there's so much uproar about these trans colored bullets but 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.920 not as much about like just a trans colored gun, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:59.280 Like why is the bullet the big thing? And we 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.239 all know that you can't play as a mass shooter 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.719 in Call of Duty. You play as a war criminal, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.240 and most transgender war criminals are just drone pilots or 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.880 work for Raytheon. If you want to play a mass 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.559 shooter game, you can just play GTA five or hit Man, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.479 where you play as cis men. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.800 but the Russian terrorist airport level don't at me. I 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.919 don't care anyway. There was a great article in former 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.080 Tucker Carlson project, The Daily Caller with the headline Pride 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.680 Month finally comes for one of the last bastions of manhood, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:39.560 and the opening tagline is gamers. They targeted gamers. Oh no, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.159 So anyway, what's really at play here with this transmash 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.080 shooter stuff. This is just another beat in the rhetorical 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.479 strategy that conservative anti trans influencers have been building over 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.920 the past year and a half, using a mix of 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.919 cherry picked data, bad stats, and often outright lies to 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.360 convince people that they're an increasing epidemic of transgender mass 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.599 killing attacks sweeping the nation. When discussing this call of duty, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.600 Pride Pack Libs of TikTok said, quote, with the uptick 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.840 in actual trans violence we've been seeing, it's alarming that 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.080 call of Duty would introduce this and a Blaze article 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.480 read quote. Critics have suggested activision Blizzard may want to 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.120 reconsider given the recent mass shootings executed by lgbt radicals. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.760 There have been multiple mass shootings executed, attempted, or at 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.120 the very least planned by transvestites and LGBTQ radicals in 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:40.200 recent years. So this Blaze article begins by listing four 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.920 alleged instances of these trans mass shooters. Two of these 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.200 simply never happened, as the alleged transgender individuals, a trans 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.960 guy and a fifty six year old organ and nazi, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:57.120 were arrested after they made concerning posts online. And the 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.320 other two which which did happen. These are these were shootings, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.440 except these were never actually done by trans people. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.280 It's a made up tap, it's a total fabrication. It 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.600 never happened. It never happened. This one was invented by 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:10.960 a writer. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.720 So although this transgender mass shooter narrative might not be real. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:17.600 Do you know what is real? Mia? 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.600 Is it capitalism? 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.160 It is, and capitalism is fueled, at least currently by 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:37.360 the products and sponsors that support this podcast. Okay, we 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.640 are back now. Trying to frame every new mass shooter 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.360 as some like crazed leftist of some variety is an 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.600 old tactic popularized by the likes of Andy Know, Which 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.920 is you know ironic? Considering the fact that political extremist 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.160 related killings for the past ten years are overwhelmingly done 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.760 by individuals tied to right wing extremism, the ADL puts 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.160 it out seventy five percent, whereas leftist extremism, which is 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.520 categorized as including anarchists as well as black nationalist groups, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.840 are responsible for just four percent. Most of the rest 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.439 they categorize as Islamic violent extremists, including the twenty sixteen 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.199 Pulse nightclub massacre targeted against here people in Orlando, although 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.360 one could argue that that is also right wing extremism, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.800 like they are also right wingers? Like It's like Yes, 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.480 It turns out the ADL might have some troubling ways 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:32.040 of collecting data breaking news anyway. Regardless of the actual facts. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.000 Lying about the political demographic of mass shooters is an 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.240 old tactic employed by far right content creators to gain 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.679 clicks and influence the talking points of more popular media 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.960 figures and politicians. And now the past few years we've 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.720 seen a new iteration of this tactic, where in the 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.000 confusion and chaos of the first few minutes and hours 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.199 after a shooting, anti trans influencers will do everything they 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.359 can to frame an alleged or suspected shooter of being transgender, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.560 often using out of context social media posts, photographs, photos 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.080 of other people, or just pictures of like long or 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.680 dyed hair to affirm that a mass shooter must actually 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.560 be transgender. Now, even if this claim is like widely 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.000 debunked later on, most of the people that follow these 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.199 far right accounts won't be hearing about that. So all 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:19.719 they need to do is use this brief window of 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.880 chaos to seed the idea into people's minds. And if 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.720 you do this thing frequently enough after each new mass shooting, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.679 then it's pretty easy to create a false perception of 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.920 this increasing trend. Now, this style of propaganda has been 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.080 largely spearheaded by Chaiai Trek, using her libs of TikTok account. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.600 Here's another quote from her quote. The modern LGBTQ plus 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:48.160 movement is radicalizing young activists into becoming violent terrorist extremists. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.240 The uptick in trans violence is going to get worse unquote. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.960 But this sort of rhetoric has been spread by many 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.280 other online figures in this orbit, like disgraced buzzfeedwriter Benny 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.440 Johnson and chronic poster ian Miles Chung. Their rhetoric has 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.800 been spread by sitting politicians Donald Trump Junior and Elon Musk. Now, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.000 to clarify, people have been lying about the gender identity 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.360 of mass shooters for like a long time. It's one 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.000 of the oldest jokes on four Chan. But what's been 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.480 going on the past two years is something different, and 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.000 it requires a little bit more in depth examination of 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.000 this propaganda trend. Now to get into more specific examples, here, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.400 I like to break down a common meme format used 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.360 to spread this type of false propaganda. It's usually about 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.720 five pictures of mass shooters with text next to each 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.120 picture that reads something like the Nashville shooter identified as trans, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.120 the X shooter identified as trans. So it will just 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.160 list all of these people that allegedly are mass shooters 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.600 and allegedly identified as trans. Now police did't identify the 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:56.280 Nashville Covenant School shooter as a trans man, that we 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.560 have to take their word for it. They've released no 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.280 other info on that. Typically this is seen as like 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.280 the first legitimate mass shooting done by a transgender individual, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.760 and for the past year we've been waiting for more 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.839 and more context to come out about this mass shooting 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.559 and it's possible motivations. So I'm not even going to 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.360 really discuss this one right now. We'll just to say, sure, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.000 this is a trans person who happened to do a 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.560 mass shooting and leave it at that, even though it's 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:21.640 you know, not totally clear. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.120 Yeah, I mean I do. I want to add one 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.679 thing briefly, which is that like trying to find out 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.200 information from the police about a mass shooting is such 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.000 a crapshoot, like they just you know, they'll they'll be 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.320 like an initial flurry of press releases or whatever, and 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.240 then they just will never talk about it again until 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.400 maybe the trial. And sometimes you get some from. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.360 That well, and in often cases for mass shooters who 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.640 often die, there is no never. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.120 Get so yeah, yeah, and if they're dead like, but. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.319 Even keeping this Nashville incident as a legitimate mass shooting 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.680 done by a person who happens to be trans when 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.679 talking about this meme, the thing is is that with 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.199 these five pictures that are on this meme, most typically 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.360 three out of the five people that have their pictures 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:06.960 here aren't even treads. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.800 Not this time. It never happened. It is false, It 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.400 never happened. It's a fake. It's fiction. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.160 Now, most famously, we have the Colorado Springs shooter Anderson 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.360 Lee Aldrich, who killed five people and injured twenty five 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.400 others at a queer club in twenty twenty two. Later on, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.200 his lawyer claimed that the shooter was non binary, which 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.959 I believe is a disgusting and disingenuous attempt to get 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.680 out of the more than now fifty hate crime charges 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.720 that the shooter is facing. And this opinion is shared 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.880 not only by the DA but also all other legitimate 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.520 extremists and researchers. Prior to these claims in court, there 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.640 was no indication whatsoever that the shooter was non binary 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.560 or used they then pronouns. However, they did own rainbow 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.600 flag shooting targets. Ran a neo Nazi website that posted 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.680 gun training videos and was known by online acquaintances to 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.360 frequently post racist and homophobic content. Now I should clarify 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.640 when I say shooting targets, I don't mean that it's 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.000 pride theme shooting targets. It's that the people that you 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.120 are shooting are painted like they are gay. So there 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.440 you go now. Pictured next in the meme is someone 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.319 with purple colored hair, labeled as the Denver shooter. This 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.200 person is not trans, has never claimed to be trans. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.600 He just has dyed hair. He killed one person in 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.920 a school shooting that he planned with a sixteen year 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:26.880 old trans guy. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.160 In shooting correct? Correct? 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.480 Will we will get in We will get into this 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.080 later because the definition of mass shooting is getting stretched 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.600 liberally here now. The third person pictured, who is in trans, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.480 changes more frequently in different versions of the meme that 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.360 you can find online. One version includes someone referenced as 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.720 the Philadelphia shooter. This is referencing a shooting spree that 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.720 resulted in five people being killed. This shooter had previously 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.280 posted photos of himself cross dressing in women's clothes, and 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.720 this was used by figures like Marjorie Taylor Green to 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.520 aim that the cis mail shooter was actually quote another 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.520 trans shooter. Family of this shooter referred to him as 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:12.040 a quote unquote biblical extremist, and he often posted bizarre 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.520 Christian spiritual conspiracy theories and was an outspoken fan of 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.960 Tucker Carlson. In another version of the meme posted by 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.080 Chaia Reichik, she identifies the Uvalde school shooter as transo 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.440 and includes a picture of a transwoman holding the trans 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.240 Pride flag. This was posted in January of this year. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.720 Elon Musk replied to the tweet with two exclamation points. Now. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.800 In the hours after the Euvaldie School shooting, pictures of 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.680 two or three different transwomen were used to falsely label 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.880 the shooter as trans, with at least one of these 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.440 transwomen being from New York, the other from Georgia. Both 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.360 these women received a great deal of harassment after the shooting. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.040 Arizona Congressman Paul Gozar tweeted that the shooter was quote 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:57.160 a transsexual, leftist illegal alien unquote, which is frankly amazing 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.280 because every word in that sentence is wrong. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.360 It's a made up tip, it's a total fabrication. It 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.360 never happened. It never happened. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.080 Now, the other person in this meme that is typically 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.520 accepted to be trans is the Aberdeen shooter. Now, I'm 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.720 going to just quote from the Washington Post here. Quote. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.240 In twenty eighteen, in Aberdeen, Maryland, a twenty six year 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.400 old shot and killed three people at a pharmaceuticals distribution 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.600 center before turning the weapon on themselves. The sheriff said 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.000 the shooter had been diagnosed as mentally ill. In twenty sixteen, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.120 a close friend reported the shooter quote suffered from bipolar 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.000 disorder and struggled since early in high school with severe depression, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.640 partly connected to their feelings of not being accepted when 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.160 they first came out as a gay teenage girl and 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.120 later as transgender. Unquote. By most accounts, this is a 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.400 transgender guy who began transitioning shortly before the shooting. Pronouns 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.440 and stuff are unclear. They also worked at this distribution 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.400 center a few weeks prior to them doing the shooting. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.840 This incident's typically not categorized as a mass shooting because 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:57.160 only three people were killed excluding the shooter. Now, one 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.440 of the more recent attempts at this transgender terrorist psyop 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.880 was in the aftermath of the shooting at Joel Ostein's 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.399 megachurch in Houston earlier this February. The shooter was a 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.840 thirty six year old woman carrying her seven year old son, sadly, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.119 both of whom died along with one other person. Just 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.320 hours after the shooting, far right accounts like lips of 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:22.359 TikTok and end Wokeness claimed that she was transgender, pointing 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.240 to documents where she used the name Jeffrey now Chia 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.680 Reichek called the shooting quote another act of trans terrorism. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.040 We need to have a national conversation about the LGBTQ 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.200 movement turning youth into violent extremists unquote. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.320 Didn't she literally say that exact thing with the last one. Yeah, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.040 they don't even covie with new tweets, like they really 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.320 just have the same five tweets in rotation. Marjorie Taylor 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:50.680 Green called her quote a trans from El Savador unquote. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.000 Missouri Representative Josh Holly, Marco Rubio, and Elon Musk all 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.560 post about this quote unquote epidemic of trans violence. These 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.520 claims were boosted by Donald Trump, June and Ted Cruz. 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.840 Fox News ran a whole story with a headline about 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:09.440 the shooter being transgender, and guess what, she's not trans. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.879 She is a CIS woman who gave birth to a 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.399 child and has always identified as a woman. It just 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.879 appears that she was given a masculine name at birth 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.960 and later changed it to a more feminine name. The 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.600 far right content sphere created so much uproar that the 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.680 police had to do a whole press conference about how 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.399 the shooter was not trans, and after the Peace lawyers 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.600 clarified she was not trans, Fox News changed their claim, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.360 now saying on air that the shooter quote identified as 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.639 both genders and was quote a biological woman who sometimes 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.639 identified as a man named Jeffrey unquote, which just isn't true. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:47.879 Jesus Christ. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.520 But the thing about this one is that it wasn't 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.080 just far right influencers in Fox News who ran with 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:58.000 this transgender narrative. MSNBC jumped on very early to say 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.800 that the shooter was quote a Hispanic transgender woman who 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.160 quote unquote identified as a woman unquote. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.359 It is totally made up, pure fiction. It's fiction. It's fiction. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:10.439 We made it up. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:11.560 M s NBC. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:19.119 More like MSNB shit, great, great, great, I'm doing great 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:19.840 this morning. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.960 Do you know what's also doing great mia. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.800 Is it the products and services support this podcast. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.720 They're pretty consistent. Yeah they are. They are still around 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:44.880 and here you can listen to their important messages. All right, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:49.080 we are so back. So there's there's so many more 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.720 cases like the ones that I've talked about. Right. The 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.800 reason I started working on this episode in the first 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.959 place was due to far right accounts claiming that a 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.320 man named Jared Rivierrez, who killed his seventy year old 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.880 roommate and went on a mass stabbing spree last month 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.760 outside of an AMC theater and a McDonald's in Massachusetts, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.720 was claimed to be a quote mentally ill trans terrorist 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:14.960 by limbs of TikTok and a transactivist quote unquote who's 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.399 a man who thinks he's a woman, which is a 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:22.199 line Libs of TikTok loves using. Now, Jared claims to 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.280 be an artist and a model, but was actually like 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.479 this really weird like grifter entrepreneur. He kind of reminds 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.879 me of that weird Canadian cat killer Luke Megnan YadA 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.639 who like created a whole bunch of fake posts to 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.680 like pretend to be famous and like created like fake 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.920 fans It's very similar to this case and later this 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.720 guy Luke in Canada also killed a gay man, very 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:51.760 similar cases. Honestly, Jared here again, he's like pretending to 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.560 be like an international entrepreneur. He looks like this weird 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.760 like hippie surfer dude with long bleached hair. Jared's father 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:03.239 is a wealthy Christian therapist who looks very similar and 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.080 anti trans influencers have pointed to the word she on 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.880 Jared's Instagram profile, but Jared's actual gender identity is really unclear. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.080 He's never pictured wearing women's clothing. He would frequently post 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:18.320 shirtless buff selfies. Jared has never claimed to be trans 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.080 or a woman, and has never used transgender language or iconography. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:26.399 Jared did file a name change request last April, but 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.080 it was to change his last name. He goes by 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.960 Jared that same month, April, So two months ago, Jared 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.119 sexually harassed a model at a Beverly Hills hotel, saying 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.440 that he wanted to have kids with her and proposed 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.160 to her, saying I'm going to be a good husband. 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.600 You're gonna be my wife unquote. This person simply, we 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.919 have no reason to think they're trans. They do this. 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:54.800 They do like weird like art stuff, and I don't know. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.919 They're like California Beverly Hills poison brained, and it seems 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.280 to they see to have gone through some kind of 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.320 mental health breakdown which resulted in them killing their roommate, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.680 two dogs, and stabbing like six or seven people in Massachusetts. 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:13.399 But another trans terrorist, sure, why not? In January of 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.960 this year, in Iowa, teenager open fire at a school, 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:20.440 killing one person and then himself again. The usual suspects 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.640 were super quick to label him as another trans terrorist, 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.520 Elon Musk saying, this is happening a lot. Something is 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:30.600 deeply wrong. This kid largely seemed like a regular gen 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.639 Z liberal. He listed his pronouns as he they. He 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.760 posted things like nominally in support of trans people. He 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.520 used the hashtag gender fluid a single time in a 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.600 TikTok video filmed with what appears to be a trans 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:46.080 friend of his. He also posted on Reddit two years 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:49.800 ago that he didn't want to transition because he didn't 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:54.479 quote wants to look ugly. He never specifically identified as trans. 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:56.680