{"id":1748892,"date":"2022-11-23T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748892"},"modified":"2022-11-23T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:15:09","slug":"suspect-in-colorado-springs-shooting-claims-to-be-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-colorado-springs-shooting-claims-to-be-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect In Colorado Springs Shooting Claims To Be \u2018Non-Binary,\u2019 Uses \u2018They\/Them\u2019 Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-in-colorado-springs-shooting-claims-to-be-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The suspect in last weekend\u2019s Colorado Springs mass shooting at a gay nightclub isn\u2019t exactly the right-wing Christian boogeyman legacy media immediately painted him as.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickAtNews\/status\/1595230623865643008?s=20&amp;t=HOgfoXyXOnIYn-TE27S9Dg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to The New York Times on Tuesday, 22-year-old Anderson Aldrich claims to be \u201cnon-binary\u201d and wants other people to refer to him with the plural pronouns \u201cthey\u201d and \u201cthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lawyers refer to their client as Mx. Anderson Aldrich,\u201d reported the paper\u2019s Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aldrich has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury related to the shooting that left five people dead and at least another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/20\/us\/colorado-springs-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 <\/a>injured on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Despite few details about the suspect emerging immediately after the shooting, left-wing talking heads placed blame on conservative media in a knee-jerk fashion. Fox News\u2019s Tucker Carlson, whose Monday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C4wx8lNBdzU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monologue <\/a>included a condemnation of political violence paired with a reminder of the dangers surrounding transgender medical interventions for minors, became a primary target \u2014 despite the fact that these interventions have been shown to <em>raise<\/em> suicide risks, contrary to the left\u2019s constant fearmongering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lawyers refer to their client as Mx. Anderson Aldrich,\u201d reported the paper\u2019s Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickAtNews\/status\/1595230623865643008?s=20&amp;t=HOgfoXyXOnIYn-TE27S9Dg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-283676\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Colorado-Springs-Suspect-Identity.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Colorado-Springs-Suspect-Identity.jpg 869w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Colorado-Springs-Suspect-Identity-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Colorado-Springs-Suspect-Identity-768x598.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"869\" height=\"677\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Aldrich has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury related to the shooting that left five people dead and at least another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/20\/us\/colorado-springs-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25\u00a0<\/a>injured on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Despite few details about the suspect emerging immediately after the shooting, left-wing talking heads placed blame on conservative media in a knee-jerk fashion. Fox News\u2019s Tucker Carlson, whose Monday night\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C4wx8lNBdzU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monologue\u00a0<\/a>included a condemnation of political violence paired with a reminder of the dangers surrounding transgender medical interventions for minors, became a primary target \u2014 despite the fact that these interventions have been shown to\u00a0<em>raise<\/em>\u00a0suicide risks, contrary to the left\u2019s constant fearmongering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/gender\/commentary\/does-gender-affirming-care-trans-kids-actually-prevent-suicide-heres-what-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According\u00a0<\/a>to a recent groundbreaking study from the Heritage Foundation, \u201ceasing access to cross-sex treatments without parental consent significantly increases suicide rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-beb3c9003c4c5d2afe64037173aa49a4\" class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-beb3c9003c4c5d2afe64037173aa49a4 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere is no scientific justification for sexually mutilating kids,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cIs pointing that out an attack on gay people? Of course it is not an attack on gay people. It has nothing to do with gay people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolence and cruelty should always horrify us every single time,\u201d Carlson added, provoking critics to call him a hypocrite because, according to the left, opposition to mutilative surgeries and sterilizing drugs for minors is somehow violent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Hateful\u2019: Critics Rip Tucker Carlson\u2019s Response To LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hateful-critics-rip-tucker-carlson-085509781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blared<\/a>\u00a0a headline in HuffPost amplified by Yahoo News.<\/p>\n<p>The article ran down a list of media personalities active on Twitter, from Media Matters for America to liberal podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, who admonished Carlson despite the prime-time host admitting the many unknowns and his commentary later being vindicated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-61013e8622aceddd8a05445c161f09b2\" class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-61013e8622aceddd8a05445c161f09b2 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo the most obvious question is why did Anderson Aldrich shoot 30 people?\u201d Carlson asked on air. \u201cThe truth is we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leftist pundits on MSNBC, however, seemed to have an answer without actually knowing any of the facts. On Tuesday, NBC\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/05\/how-to-survive-elon-musks-pro-free-speech-twitter-a-guide-for-the-corrupted-national-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter hall monitor<\/a>\u00a0Ben Collins, on the verge of tears, called on reporters to \u201chave a come-to-Jesus moment\u201d and confront the supposedly violent rhetoric from conservative outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we more afraid of being on Breitbart for saying that trans people deserve to be alive, or are we more afraid of the dead people?\u201d Collins asked after he highlighted a series of headlines that warned of right-wing violence targeting transgender-identified people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m more afraid of the dead people,\u201d Collins finished. \u201cI don\u2019t want to wake up on a Sunday and see all of these headlines come to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think we have to have a come-to-Jesus moment here as reporters\u2014Are we more afraid of being on Breitbart for saying that trans people deserve to be alive, or are we more afraid of the dead people?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oneunderscore__?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@oneunderscore__<\/a> on the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric and its real-life impacts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RuEEDikFHe\">pic.twitter.com\/RuEEDikFHe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1595106251964391424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now would be a good time for Collins and the rest of the left-wing media establishment to have an actual \u201ccome to Jesus moment\u201d over their hysterical coverage that immediately fomented outrage, fear, and division by blaming their political opponents. Now that we actually have a few facts, their narrative appears to be falling apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect in last weekend&#8217;s Colorado Springs mass shooting at a gay nightclub isn&#8217;t exactly the right-wing Christian boogeyman after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1897982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Suspect In Colorado Springs Shooting Claims To Be \u2018Non-Binary,\u2019 Uses \u2018They\/Them\u2019 Pronouns","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Suspect In Colorado Springs Shooting Claims To Be \u2018Non-Binary,\u2019 Uses \u2018They\/Them\u2019 Pronouns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}