Murder in Minneapolis

“Trans” is fueling a murderous rage

September 27, 2025

Scrolling through TERF Twitter (a.k.a., X), as I do, I came across a post about a man who was recently convicted of murdering his ex. The convicted murderer is a man who claims to be a woman, as was his victim.

The point the post was making is that the US media is reporting this matter as though both the victim and the perpetrator were women.

It’s quite common for the US media (as well as the BBC and others) to report criminal activity perpetrated by men who claim to have woman “gender identities” as though the crimes were actually perpetrated by women. This is what inspired the hashtag #NotOurCrimes on X.

I wrote about the phenomenon in The Abolition of Sex and The Reckoning. From The Abolition of Sex:

It has become commonplace for reporters to report on horrific crimes as being committed by women when they were in fact committed by men. One of the most egregious examples is the reporting on the case of Jakob Nieves, who was convicted in August 2020 of two counts of sexual exploitation of children, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. Jakob is a man who also claims to “identify” as a woman. Reports of the story frequently contain headlines such as this one from the Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Massachusetts: “Woman gets 30 years for child sex abuse.”

The article clarifies that Nieves “identifies and lives as a female” (without explaining what that might mean when referring to a man) and uses “she” and “her” in describing him. Two of Nieves’s victims were under four years old, and Nieves apparently told an undercover officer that “she had sexually abused two children known to her, and sent the undercover agent images and videos that Nieves had produced, which depicted Nieves sexually abusing one of those children.” This is a male child sexual abuser being reported on as though he were a woman in what is presumably an otherwise reputable publication. However, no reader would know that by simply reading the headline. Any average reader would simply assume that these horrible crimes had been committed by a woman.

Another example is John Collins of Miami, Florida who, at the time of writing, is facing multiple robbery charges in connection with a scheme of allegedly providing wealthy men with alcohol and/or drugs and then stealing their property. One headline reads: “Prosecutors: Woman accused of drugging men, stealing high-end watches across South Florida.” Another reads: “Woman Arrested After String of Watch Robberies: Police.”

Any average reader coming across these headlines would reasonably assume that these crimes had, in fact, been committed by a woman. Only by reading the first story itself does a reader come across this statement: “When the prosecutor asked in court how Collins would like to be addressed, the 29-year-old said she identifies as a woman.” The prosecutor then went on to refer to Collins using “she” throughout the remainder of the proceeding.

In both of these instances, although the reporters egregiously used headlines which suggest that the perpetrators are women, they at least managed to report the fact that these are not actual women, in some fashion. Sometimes, however, reporters fail to note that fact at all. Take, for example, Victoria Midrange (this case is from Wales, but the principle is the same). Midrange was convicted of burglary in December 2020, having previously been convicted of eighty-two offenses, including robbery, causing dangerous death by dangerous driving, house burglaries, and more than forty non-dwelling burglaries, one of which involved a burglary of a police station. One headline reads: “Woman puts on hi-vis jacket to burgle key workers’ hotel in Swansea.”

The reporter uses “she” and “her” throughout, and at no point does the article so much as mention that this suspect is biologically male. The only hint that there might be something strange going on is this sentence: “[T]he defendant was arrested the following day by officers investigating reports of a ‘tall, distinctive-looking man’ connected to a series of break-ins at flats in Swansea’s Maritime Quarter.”

In order for a reader to understand that this violent perpetrator is a man, he or she would have to first think, “I wonder if this article is actually referring to a man” and proceed to research that question. But that defies common sense. People do not typically read a news item and wonder whether the reporter is simply lying about something as central as the sex of a violent offender. But if a reader did research the question, they would learn that Victoria is, in fact, a man.

There are a few important takeaways here. One is that each example above (and countless others) provides concrete evidence of the abolition of sex in journalism; it is not only happening in the law. Another is that we are all being lied to and—in the classic definition of the term—abusively gaslit by the media. We are being told that violent crimes are committed by women when that is simply not true.

This is all getting much, much worse, as the current story demonstrates. Read on to learn more.

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