Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated by the Transgender Movement

I've been urging caution about speculating, but the facts seem clear today.

I’ve been telling everybody not to jump to conclusions about the motive of the Utah assassin.

But today, four days later, the facts now seem pretty clear: in all likelihood, Charlie Kirk was murdered for opposing the transgender movement.

From a CNN report on Charlie’s last words:

Then [Kirk] took a seat under a tent reading “PROVE ME WRONG,” and began the show.

About 20 minutes in, a young audience member stepped up to the microphone to try to do just that.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” he asked.

“Too many,” Kirk quipped. The crowd clapped and cheered.

Five, the audience member claimed.

My reader counted only four in my post yesterday, “Is There a Transgender Shootings Trend?”

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” the man continued.

Kirk leaned forward and picked up his mic before setting back into an upright position. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.

Sounds like Charlie was Steve-pilled on crime statistics …

A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.

It seems like the assassin, who has an M to F-transitioning lover, waited to shoot Kirk until the meeting turned to that issue of most personal importance to him: transgenderism.

The New York Times news section reported:

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says

Gov. Spencer Cox said the suspect had been “radicalized,” and noted he had a romantic partner who is transitioning from male to female who is cooperating fully with investigators.

By Jack Healy and Orlando Mayorquín

Reporting from St. George, Utah

Sept. 14, 2025

Updated 3:44 p.m. ET

Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah on Sunday provided new information about the background and political leanings of the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk, saying that the suspect had a “leftist ideology” and had also been in a romantic relationship with a partner who was in the process of transitioning from male to female.

Mr. Cox, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” described the suspect, Tyler Robinson, as a “very normal young man” who appeared to have been “radicalized” some time after he dropped out of college and moved back to his hometown in southern Utah, where he had spent the past few years.

Mr. Cox did not go into specifics about Mr. Robinson’s ideological views or offer details to substantiate his assessment of the suspect’s views. Mr. Cox said Mr. Robinson had spent much of his time immersed in online gaming, message boards and parts of what the governor called the “deep, dark internet.”

Mr. Cox, a Republican, did not detail a motive for the shooting of Mr. Kirk, a prominent conservative activist. …

Mr. Cox said the suspect’s romantic partner did not have any advance knowledge about the shooting and was “shocked” by what happened. The authorities have indicated that the partner, whom they have identified as Mr. Robinson’s roommate, has cooperated fully with the investigation and provided private messages that incriminated Mr. Robinson.

The Times is not identifying the suspect’s partner in this article because the authorities have said the partner was not involved in the crime and is cooperating.

The new information about the suspect’s romantic relationship is likely to raise further questions about the suspect’s motive and ideology, which are a focus of the official investigation but also the subject of intense speculation on social media and even among public officials.

Mr. Cox said more information would be available on Tuesday, when the suspect is expected to be formally charged by local prosecutors. It was not yet clear if he had a lawyer. In another interview on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Mr. Cox said that investigators were also examining a potential note left by the suspect, and that charging documents would provide additional details.

So, we’ll learn more if this apparent note pans out.

Mr. Kirk was outspoken on a variety of hotly contested topics — race, gun control, abortion — in ways that often stoked controversy. A conservative Christian, he was also an outspoken critic of gay and transgender rights.

Ideological opponents often challenged Mr. Kirk on his anti-transgender views when he visited college campuses to engage students and others in open-air debates through his conservative youth organization, Turning Point USA. Mr. Kirk was answering a question about transgender people and mass shootings at Utah Valley University on Wednesday when he was fatally shot.

On Sunday, Mr. Cox said that Mr. Robinson’s political ideology was “very different” from that of his conservative family.

“There clearly was a leftist ideology with this — with this assassin,” he said, citing the suspect’s family and romantic partner as sources of that information. …

Mr. Robinson and his partner had been living in a sun-baked complex of stucco apartments on the south side of St. George, that is home to mostly college students, 20-somethings and young families.

Is there any other plausible interpretation of this assassination? If so, please let me know in the comments.