The Blame Game
If Gender Dysphoria Turns You Into A Criminal Why Are We Not More Dubious Of It?
Lately as I’ve been poring over past newsletters I’ve written there seems to be a theme that runs throughout the reports from transwomen who have been credibly charged and/or convicted of crimes - particularly the heinous crimes - and it is this: nearly all of them in part or total blame their criminal activity on either the “stress” of their transition or gender dysphoria.
This begs some serious questions: if gender dysphoria is a trigger for someone to embark on a life of crime why are we not doing everything in our power to treat it? Why do we passively accept a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or that anyone says they have gender dysphoria knowing full well this person may end up committing a serious crime?
Consider the curious case of Michael Hari.
Michael Hari was the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque and was sentenced to 53 years in prison for an attack that terrified the mosque's community.
Hari made the extraordinary claim that he is now Emily Claire Hari and that his crimes were fueled by severe gender dysphoria when he was convicted, that he shouldn’t get any more than 30 years in prison and that he be placed in a women’s prison consistent with his gender identification.
What’s even more extraordinary is that a sitting judge sentenced him to these 53 years in a women’s prison.
Hari is no stranger to being in trouble with the law. Indeed, in 2006 he was convicted of and received 30 months of probation for abducting his 13 and 15 year old daughters, absconding to Mexico and Belize because he feared he would lose custody of them to his ex-wife. In 2017, he allegedly attacked his neighbor and held a gun to his head after his neighbor complained about his loose dogs.
Hari was convicted of five federal charges, including hate crimes and civil rights violations, for the bombing. Throughout the trial, prosecutors said Hari recruited desperate and uneducated men to help carry out the attack on the mosque with the intent of striking fear into the heart of the Muslim community. Hari and his "White Rabbits" militia planned other attacks, prosecutors said, and attempted to bomb a clinic that performs abortions in Champaign, Illinois, but the homemade explosive failed to ignite much to the relief of just about, oh, the rest of us.
Now that Hari has come out as transgendered we’re suddenly asked to believe that a man who has spent a portion of his adult life in the pursuit of oppressing women by denying them their right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy now wants to be one?
What is easier to believe here: that Hari has successfully gamed the system to an extent he now gets to enjoy the next 53 years in a women’s prison and will possibly sexually assault/rape an inmate in the near future or that he suddenly, within weeks of being found guilty on domestic terrorist charges, has gender dysphoria?
This isn’t the first time a man a has blamed his particular crimes on gender dysphoria, as evidenced by the other case of one Dana McCallum.
"Dana" McCallum, alias Contreras, previous name Dan, is a male Twitter engineer who was convicted in 2014 for assaulting, raping and trespassing on his former wife. He carried out the rape when all three children were in the house in San Francisco, California. McCallum, who has claimed to be a social justice warrior in the past, and calls himself an LGBT activist, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges as part of plea deal to avoid five felony charges.
He got no custodial sentence, pleading the psychological stress of his transition.
For these misdemeanor pleas, McCallum received a sentence of three years probation, four days in county jail, 25 hours of community service, counseling for substance abuse, 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling, and payment of some minor fees. He was also ordered to stay away from his wife. With credit for the four days he had served while the trial was pending, McCallum served no prison time following sentencing.
It should be noted that if you have ever been suspended from Twitter (in my case, permanently) for the high crime of “misgendering” someone or have said anything that is deemed “transphobic” by Trans Rights Activists this is the person who helped shaped that policy.
What I find interesting here is how quick transwomen like McCallum and Hari who finds themselves in serious legal jeopardy blames their gender dysphoria as if we’re supposed to just say, “Oh, well, that’s alright we understand how difficult this must be for you”.
Or should we really point out that the Emperor is naked and wagging his penis in everyone’s face?
At this moment there is the trial of Dana Rivers (formerly David Warfield) a noted transgender activist who murdered a lesbian couple Patricia Wright & Charlotte Reed, and their adult son Benny Diambu-Wright in Oakland, California in November 2016. His motive for murdering them was revenge because they organized women-only events from which he was excluded.
I predict - with a certainly approaching 100% - that he, too, will blame his gender dysphoria but due to the fact that this trial is under media blackout we won’t know this for certain and certainly not in a timely manner.
Rivers has already tried the insanity defense but was found competent to stand trial which, according to reports, will resume January 2022.
I have to avoid reading these accounts - these few are the tip of the iceberg - because they’re simultaneously depressing and alarming. As statistics show “trans” die of violence at a tenth the rate of the general population in the US (as opposed to what we are told by GLAAD for instance) my instinct to calculate rates of violence in this population to general population is almost irresistible.
You don’t often see a straight man holding a baseball bat in a photo declaring publicly they are going after women, or photographed in groups attacking women in event crowds, or calling for crowds to attack women in videos. In Charlottesville of course a woman was killed by supremacists for her views, but that was unusual.
Good article. Made me rethink my instincts.