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On August 27th, 2025, Robin Westman walked into a Minneapolis Catholic school armed with three guns and opened fire during morning Mass.
Two children were killed, and several others wounded, before Westman turned a weapon on himself.
But what made this tragedy so disturbing wasn’t just the violence — it was the story that followed.
Why did so many media outlets conceal key details about the shooter’s identity?
And why are we seeing a growing number of violent offenders who identify as transgender?
This video narrates the essay "We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers” by Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman, published in Quillette on October 16th, 2025:
Trans-Identified Mass Shooters and Gender-Affirming Care
The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing.

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