Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) is now proposing that transgender people be mass institutionalized because “this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country” and we “have to get them off the streets,” all while claiming that trans women “have an underlying level of aggressiveness.”
The MAGA lawmaker’s remarks come as conservatives are ramping up their anti-transgender rhetoric in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, whose alleged shooter has a roommate and romantic partner who is currently transitioning genders.
According to law enforcement officials, the suspect – 22-year-old Tyler Robinson – confessed in a text exchange with the roommate that he had killed Kirk. “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out,” Robinson said in one text when asked why he had shot Kirk, who had long railed against transgender rights.
Robinson’s mother also told prosecutors that her son had become “more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented” in the past year. When Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University last week, he was debating a person on the prevalence of mass shootings carried out by transgender people.
At the same time, while the texts are illuminating, they don’t explicitly show which specific views of Kirk’s that Robinson thought were hateful. When asked at a Tuesday news conference if transgender issues played a role in the shooting, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said he was “going to stick to what I just stated in” the court documents, as it was “pretty much set forth there.”
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