The AR-15-toting female who opened fire on worshippers at Lakewood Church in Houston on Sunday before she was killed by two off-duty law enforcement officers used a male name, making her one of several gender-confused shooters in recent years.
After what Houston Police Department Homicide Division Commander Chris Hassig called a rigorous investigation “talking with individuals” conducting “interviews” and scanning “documents,” the department confirmed that 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno is a Hispanic woman who sometimes masqueraded as “Jeffrey Escalante.”
It’s still unclear exactly why Moreno, who had a long rap sheet and, according to Moreno’s anti-Second Amendment mother-in-law, a history of schizophrenia, charged into the megachurch on Sunday with a gun emblazoned with “Free Palestine.” One thing for certain: she wasn’t the first gender-bending individual to resort to deadly violence in recent years.
The 17-year-old Iowan male who shot up his high school in January was known to flirt with inaccurate pronouns and transgender ideology.
The 28-year-old woman who shot and killed three children and three staff at a small Christian school in Nashville in March 2023 went by a male name and referred to herself with male pronouns.
The 22-year-old man who shot and killed five and injured dozens more at a Colorado Springs nightclub in November 2022 told courts he is “nonbinary”and uses “they/them pronouns,” and asked to be referred to as “Mx.” instead of “Mr.” by his lawyers.
The 16-year-old female who, along with another teen, shot up the middle school and high school sections of a Denver-area charter school masqueraded as a man and demanded people call her by a male name.
The 26-year-old female who shot and killed three employees and herself at a Rite Aid distribution center in Maryland in 2018 told family and friends she was trans.
Until recently, corporate media had no problem singling out white male mass shooters over their race and sex. Yet instead of acknowledging the rise in gender-fluid murderers, the press either memory-hole the tragedies or use them to attack anyone who dares to notice the trend.
The same press known for glamorizing killers, inspiring copycat acts, and using shootings to advance gun control suddenly use acts of violence by the gender-confused to frame Christians and policies protecting children from drag shows and irreversible sexual disfigurement. The media today are more worried about trans shooters being “misgendered” than the fact that their mental distress is increasingly leading to murder.
Gender Ideology Is Dangerous
Medical and health organizations around the globe have made a big show in the last decade of declassifying transgenderism as a disorder despite research showing a strong link between genderbending and a multitude of mental health issues.
Activists even use junk studies, often with the help of coercive medical staff, to back their insistence that young, physically healthy individuals sterilize themselves. They purport that “affirming” a person’s rejection of his or her God-given sex, even if solely socially, fixes all of their mental health problems, even those that predate gender dysphoria, and reduces suicide risk.
Transgender individuals don’t have to cut off their breasts or genitalia or chemically castrate themselves to suffer the harrowing, life-threatening, and radical consequences of gender ideology. Even undergoing “social transition” — the process of adopting a new name, using inaccurate pronouns, and cross-dressing — does irreversible damage to minds and souls.
Many of the genderfluid shooters, including those who did not have proven cross-sex hormone use or mutilative surgeries, picked up their guns prepared to deliberately lose their lives in the chaos.
Gender ideology is deadly. If it’s not immediately threatening the life and the livelihood of the individual who is falsely promised that “gender” can be manipulated based on a whim and without consequences, it’s threatening the lives around the person who is racked with turmoil about his or her untreated mental condition.
“When it comes to gender dysphoria, it would seem the diagnosis is often not being given for the purpose of remedying the root causes of mental distress,” Federalist contributors Dr. Jennifer Bauwens and Walt Heyer recently wrote. “Instead, the diagnosis is increasingly being used as a vehicle for payment to change one’s physiological appearance.”
Despite its fatal nature, gender ideology is pervasive, infecting willing institutions from hospitals to the White House to schools to Big Tech to the music industry to corporations to corporate media to online dictionaries and even Netflix documentaries.
Pharmaceutical company and social media echo chambers are working. Not only has the number of self-proclaimed transgender teens nearly doubled since 2017 to 300,000, but one U.S.-based study found “people 13 to 25 accounted for a disproportionately large share of the transgender population.”
The rise in gender-confused individuals who are told to make life-changing, physically altering, and often irreversible choices (instead of getting treatment for their underlying mental health disorders) paired with the growing trend in transgender shooters suggests the peak of our gender ideology crisis is yet to come.
The media’s silence about — or, worse, often complacent coverup of — the rise of genderbending shooters isn’t an accident. It’s the purposeful subversion of a narrative that threatens what they stand for. If press outlets, along with their allies in government, entertainment, and Big Tech, can keep conversations about violent transgender shooters down, they have successfully monopolized the language, definitions, and history of biological reality.
