It’s now beyond dispute that a radicalized transgender activist is responsible for the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk.
But it’s worse than that, if such a thing were possible.
The Kirk assassination has brought to light the deadly alignment between transgender radicals like Charlie’s killer and Antifa. The collaboration has been dubbed “Trantifa.”
Few in the media want to talk about this new alignment – and the radical LGBT lobby vehemently denies the connection – but it’s essential that we do so for the good of society. Trantifa must be exposed, confronted, and rooted out.
Let’s look at the two elements of this new partnership – transgender ideology and anarchism. They both have at their foundation a rejection of the created order, normality, tradition, and common sense.
Transgenderism is the belief in the lie that a person’s gender is not based on the objective bodily reality of biological sex, but on a self-determined “identity,” often with a sexual identity component. A man who identifies as a woman comes to believe that he was born into the wrong body. If his true identity is to be “affirmed” then his physical being must be “transitioned” as well. Throughout the transition and forever more, it is expected by the radicals that his identity be “affirmed” and never questioned. It is also often expected that the rest of us pay for this transition through our tax dollars and insurance premiums. Even people in prison are entitled to taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries and hormone replacement procedures, according to leftists like Kamala Harris.
A man who identifies as a woman is a woman, full stop, we are told. Similarly, a woman who identifies as a man is completely and totally a man. That is why we’re told by the LGBT lobby that men can become pregnant. We are no longer supposed to refer to a “pregnant woman.” Instead, we’re supposed to transition language to “pregnant people.” It’s not breastfeeding an infant – it’s now “chestfeeding” so men (“trans women”) are not excluded. We’re supposed to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns – never “he” or “she” based on their objective bodily sex, but often “they” (as if a word that definitionally means more than one can be used to refer to a single person).
Those of us who believe in the created order and value normality and moral clarity must affirm the lie, or risk being ostracized, cancelled and punished.
Anarchists adhere to the belief that hierarchical authority should be challenged and usually rejected. They reject structures they consider to be hierarchical, such as government, family, and religion. They reject the notion of a created order. They consider these structures to be racist, nationalistic, authoritarian, and fascist. Anarchists consider themselves to be the opposite of the values and beliefs that undergird hierarchical structures. They are, therefore, “antifascists” – or Antifa.
Having come to the belief that the hierarchical created order is fascist, they are determined to confront “fascism.” The police are tools of fascism. The anarchists feel a duty to take direct action to confront fascist authority. This involves physically confronting alleged fascists, disrupting their events, tearing down their structures and monuments to their authority (statutes, buildings, artwork, etc.), and exposing them as alleged fascists through doxxing and other intimidation and shaming techniques. It means violent protests in the streets, violent confrontations with the police, occupying Wall Street and taking over large parts of urban centers in places like Portland and Seattle.
Charlie Kirk personified all that the transgender radicals and anarchists hate. A devout Christian, his faith guided every aspect of his life and was the foundation of his Turning Point USA ministry.
Charlie believed in marriage and family. He felt the highest calling of men and women was to get married and raise children. He stood for God, family, the created order, normality, and tradition. He thought that transgender ideology was “weird” and said the “T” in LGBT stood for “tyrannical.” He particularly wanted kids to be protected from this ideology. Here’s what he told an interviewer:
“It is full totalitarian control of your speech, of your children, of your body … It cloaks itself on its surface, the trans agenda, as live and let live… But it’s never been about that. Instead, it’s, no, allow me to propagandize your 13-year-old child and then put them under general anesthesia and chop up their breasts because it’s good for them.”
Charlie did more than just hold traditional, biblical and hierarchical beliefs. He preached them. And he preached them in the most inhospitable places possible – on college campuses and universities across America. He wanted to facilitate a turning point among the next generation – turning young people away from immorality, Marxism, and the tyranny of the elite, and toward God and universal truths that facilitate human flourishing.
Charlie believed that God created men and women in His image as males and females, not “they/them.” He believed that husbands should love their wives, and wives should support their husbands. He believed that couples should be fruitful and multiply, and then sacrifice for the well-being of their children.
His “weapon” was words, a microphone, and a desire to debate those who disagreed with him, believing that speaking for truth and modeling traditional morality would carry the day and begin to convert the youth.
That is why the left hated him, particularly transgender radicals and anarchists.
The killer of Charlie Kirk is a pro-transgender radical and an Antifa-aligned antifascist.
His lover and boyfriend is a man who identifies as a woman and is reportedly in the midst of a transition to female. The two share a sexual fetish called “furries” – a fantasy apparently involving animalistic affection and behavior. The killer was part of an online group of gamers and anarchists/antifascists. He paid homage to them and antifascism through etchings on the casings of the bullets he used to kill Kirk.
The assassin was radicalized by the rhetoric from the left and LGBT lobby that opposing their agenda was hateful and fascistic. He found Charlie Kirk’s words to be particularly hateful and told his transgender boyfriend that some hate was “not negotiable.” He said he had a chance to stop that hate and was going to take the chance.
The man who killed Charlie Kirk is at least the eighth transgender assassin in recent months. Only a few weeks ago, one of them gunned down two people and wounded nearly two dozen kids attending mass at a Catholic school.
President Trump says he will target anarchists and Antifa by declaring them a domestic terror threat. That is certainly an appropriate designation. The issue is not merely holding anarchist ideas, the issue is acting on them to the detriment of their fellow man, and society as a whole.
But more needs to be done to confront the threat of Trantifa. Transgender ideology needs to be challenged on a broad scale, throughout society. It is a disastrous mental delusion for everyone who gets introduced to it. 80% of those who identify as transgender will think about committing suicide, and over 40% will go on to attempt to kill themselves or others.
Charlie Kirk, tragically, was one of the innocents killed by the transgender delusion.
We must ban transgender ideology in every avenue we can. It must be rooted out of the schools, disavowed by medical professionals and repudiated by public policies and laws at the state and federal levels.
The emergence of Trantifa is a serious threat to America. It’s time that we expose it, confront it and end it.
Brian S. Brown is the President of both the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and the International Organization for the Family (IOF). He has for many years been one of America’s most prominent social conservatives. He may be reached at [email protected].
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