It would certainly be wrong to argue that everyone with a transgender identity is a potential mass shooter. That would be flatly irresponsible. But it is insanity to argue that the transgender identity has nothing to do with these crimes. The pattern is now undeniable. Most cultural authorities are running scared from any public acknowledgement of the pattern. They are so intimidated by the LGBTQ community and the cultural guardians of leftist gender ideologies that they simply want to move on—fast.

We have to talk about the trans issue. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appeared on several leading Sunday morning news programs this past weekend, and we need to look closely at what he disclosed about Tyler Robinson, the young man arrested for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. After explaining that Robinson had been radicalized through online engagement through chat sites and gaming platforms, Cox added: “There clearly was a leftist ideology.” That makes perfect sense, given that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was clearly linked to the fact that he was a hero among American conservatives—especially young conservatives—and that he was engaged in public debate on a major college campus at the moment he was murdered.

Furthermore, early information released by law enforcement included engravings on ammunition that clearly reflected “a leftist ideology.” As is true in the vast majority of political assassinations, the assassin kills to send a political message. That was accentuated in the killing of Charlie Kirk because it happened in the context of a political event in which Kirk was doing what he did best—appearing among thousands of college students in order to contend for his beliefs. He sat under a tent that advertised with words the openness of his approach: “Prove me wrong.”

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