It was November. The first contractions started at midnight. I gave birth in the early hours of the new day. My husband was with me the whole time, both during the birth and for the two-hour wait afterwards. We didn’t sleep all night and together we took part in the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to us. He often says how, when he came out of the hospital, he saw people going to work or doing their morning shopping, everyone going about their usual business, and none of them knowing that his whole world had turned upside down that night and that he had watched his daughter being born. How strange is that, he recalls.
Six years later, on the eve of another day in November, I learned with horror that the little son of a friend had tragically died. That day we had gone about our usual business, met with friends, got a little wet in the city when it rained… Nothing special, but that’s life. While at the same time, for someone else I know, in that same city, the world had stopped turning.
It’s incredible when you think that both beautiful and terrible things happen simultaneously and everyday not only somewhere in the world but also in the same city, in the same country. And life still goes on, people still laugh and cry, rejoice and grieve, hope beyond hope, endure, grind their teeth, and continue to live their lives.
I have no words to describe how much I have been affected by all the tragic events that have happened in Serbia since May this year. One of the biggest fears of every parent is to send a child to school or to some usual, completely safe activity, something that is an integral part of everyday life, and then receive “the call”. And the latest murder victim, Đorđe, who went by the female name Noa, told his parents that he was “going to see his boyfriend in Belgrade”, and then disappeared. A parent’s nightmare.
The details of the murder are so gruesome that, out of respect for the parents and the victim, the media should not disclose them, let alone turn them into horrible sensationalist headlines that we can hardly escape these days.
Likewise, the sexual orientation of the victim, as well as him self-identifying as a woman, should not be used by the media, politicians and LGBT activists for their ideological goals. But to them, understandably, that’s irrelevant, because it’s so much more important to find a way to attribute this murder to “homophobia” and “transphobia” in Serbian society, even though the perpetrator is also someone from their LGBT circles, yet this fact is somehow being overlooked and not mentioned by the media when reporting on this case.
Thus, we see that LGBT activist Goran Miletić attributed this crime to “traditional values” in a post on Twitter, even though the murderer is also part of the LGBT community, and the victim’s friends told the media that “he had dated other trans girls in the past.”
I only can imagine what the headlines and comments would be if the killer was a heterosexual man.
Unscrupulous and shameless lobbyists and agents of globalist neo-Marxism are trying to present the murder of this transgender boy as a femicide and somehow put it all down to living in “patriarchal and misogynistic Serbian society” where “women are killed just because they are women.” And if you dare say something against it, then you’re showered with accusations of “transphobia” and platitudes like “isn’t murder itself terrible enough” and “what does sexual orientation matter, life is life”.
Yes, every murder is terrible, and when it is as cruel and gruesome as in this case, we can openly call it abhorrent. But that has nothing to do with femicide, because the victim is not a woman. Likewise, Đorđe-Noa was not killed because he was transgender, but because he was in a bad, violent relationship with a person known to a troublemaker.
I understand that for some people news like makes their minds go blank and they simply cannot bear to delve into the details. Faced with phenomena that cause enormous fear in them, some people react in this way because there are psychological mechanisms at work with which we defend ourselves in situations of great stress. In those cases, the defense mechanism involves blocking unwanted, frightening information. Such persons are unable to discuss issues that are just too horrifying for them. In fact, there are issues that are too horrifying for each of us, and we avoid thinking or talking about them. For some this issue is murder. This is one of the many reasons why it should be illegal for the media to report on such events in a sensationalist manner.
Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death, Annie Lennox sang all those years ago.
It’s terrible that Đorđe-Noa lost his life. What was done to his body will haunt his murderer in an even more terrible way. However, yet more terrible than that was the life these persons led, the decisions they made, the world of prostitution, drugs, pornography and promiscuity in which they lived. And it is so much more frightening that this way of life is being increasingly promoted not only as something that is out there and that should be allowed to exist, but as something that should be accepted, and even glorified and celebrated, something that people should be proud of.
“But the LGBT lifestyle is not always like that,” some will say. I agree, it’s not. And I don’t want to make generalized claims. Clearly, not every LGBT person is part of that world. However, in this particular case, we learn that Đorđe-Noa was a TikToker and that he regularly posted content from his life on social networks, and those who cared about him could clearly see the many red flags in those videos and photos. Moreover, the statements of close people (family members, roommate) clearly show that they all knew that Đorđe-Noa was taking drugs and that he was in an unhealthy, violent relationship with the man who is now the suspect in his murder, while at the same time he wasn’t Đorđe’s only boyfriend/partner.
I don’t see that the so-called LGBT community has distanced itself from these illegal activities and, for instance, came to the Republic Square to mourn the death of one of them, lamenting the fact that he had lived the way he had, instead of being clean (from drugs) and healthy, studying or working, and having healthy and functional relationships with other people.
Do LGBT activists see nothing bad or wrong in the fact that an apparently violent boyfriend – one of many that Noa was with, and a person currently on house arrest with an ankle monitor – made Đorđe-Noa perform oral sex on him while live streaming it?
Do they see nothing wrong with that same man sending Đorđe-Noa to squat in the corner as punishment, then turning the camera to the yard to show the dog cages and threatening to put him in there?
Is it normal for them that Đorđe-Noa filmed himself with wounds on his face and neckline that look like they are partly bruises, and partly wounds caused by poor immunity due to drug abuse?
Neighbors from his hometown say that “Noa was cheerful, always said hello, very polite…” In the Tiktok videos that are now shared by the media, I see a very fragile, unhappy person with deep health and identity problems.
It’s sad when an adult is killed, as was the case recently when a father and daughter died in a highway car accident, leaving behind a wife and a son, let alone a young person who had his whole life ahead of him, and who could have had time to get out of the dark world in which he lived. But the tragedy of this crime must not be misused for ideological and political purposes. Just like vultures, some have already come down upon the unfortunate young man, finding in his tragic death a justification for their activities and “oppression” that they suffer, portraying themselves as victims of the oppressive system and society along with the actual victim of the crime. To protect children from those who promote transgender ideology, who tell children and young people that they will solve all life problems if they surgically remove healthy body parts, become sterile and dependent on drugs their whole life, we must call things by their real name.
Yes, it is very terrible and tragic that a young person was killed.
But that person is a biological male and this murder cannot possibly be femicide.