Dad awarded full custody of son whose mother tries to raise him 'non-binary' celebrates major victory with Allie Beth Stuckey



A California man professes to be "ecstatic" after he was awarded full custody of his son, Sawyer, whose mother has attempted to raise him as "non-binary." In his first interview since being granted full custody, the proud dad sits down with BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey to share the details of his tumultuous journey and to give encouragement to others in a similar situation.

Several years ago, Harrison Tinsley had a brief relationship with a woman in the Bay Area. Soon after meeting, the two conceived a child together, a boy named Sawyer. However, the boy's mother, who reportedly has serious mental health diagnoses, quickly detached herself from Tinsley. In fact, Tinsley did not meet his son until the boy was more than a year old.

Shockingly, she may have conscripted Sawyer into engaging in the fight with her father, as Sawyer apparently struck his grandfather in the face with a plastic object. Sawyer told Tinsley he had done so at his mother's request.

Tinsley spent the first several years of Sawyer's life fighting to gain full custody of his son, even as the courts stubbornly kept custody evenly split between Sawyer's two parents. Last fall, Tinsley shared with Stuckey his heartbreaking frustration as he endured having just "half-custody" of Sawyer.

Little did Tinsley know that his prospects would soon change.

Last week, less than a year since his first interview with Stuckey, Tinsley was awarded fully custody of Sawyer, who is now 4 and a half. On Thursday's episode of "Relatable," Tinsley speaks with Stuckey once again to celebrate this major victory.

"It's, like, an absolute miracle, dream come true," Tinsley said.

Tinsley went on to explain that he has "full physical custody," which means Sawyer lives with Tinsley, while Sawyer's mother has "a couple of visits per week." Though future legal battles remain a very real possibility, Tinsley is thrilled that he gets to have Sawyer full-time while Sawyer maintains a relationship with his mother.

"As far as legal custody goes, we essentially have to discuss things," Tinsley explained. "But at the end of the day, if we don't agree, I have the final say."

Stuckey expressed admiration for Tinsley's unwavering devotion to his son. "It's a big sacrifice," she noted. "It took you a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of financial resources, and you did it because your son was worth it to you."

While Tinsley has done his best to provide a stable, healthy environment for his son, Sawyer's mother's mental health struggles seem to have continued. Not only does she still use they/them pronouns in reference to Sawyer, but she has even had several arrests, including after a physical altercation with her father.

Shockingly, she may have conscripted Sawyer into engaging in that fight, as Sawyer apparently struck his grandfather in the face with a plastic object. Sawyer told Tinsley he had done so at his mother's request, though she denied that.

"The mother claims that he did it just in her honor without her saying anything," Tinsley recalled to Stuckey. "I tend to believe Sawyer."

Tinsley and Stuckey also discussed the far-left political climate of the Bay Area and California in general. Tinsley has recently become an advocate for parental rights in his state even as LGBTQ radicals recently passed legislation allowing schools to keep children's so-called gender transitions a secret.

Tinsley called Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom "a horrible person" and a bad leader, but he claimed that those at the local level mainly work for the best interest of children, regardless of politics.

"CPS in San Francisco ... should be commended," Tinsley said. "They did their job, politics aside. ... They put all that aside and did their job and did what's best for Sawyer."

Tinsley also wanted to encourage others facing a similar custody or other legal battle. "Don't give up, no matter what. No matter how hard it feels, no matter how discouraged you feel," he insisted. "You got to keep going and find a way to keep moving forward. That's what life's about. It's always darkest just before the dawn."

"You never know what will happen. Just do everything you can. And even if you were to fail, you'll feel much better about having tried so hard than if you didn't."

The entire interview with Tinsley will be aired on YouTube and BlazeTV on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. ET. To enjoy that and other original content like it, click here to become a subscriber.

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'Trans non-binary' athlete to represent US in women's track event at Paris Olympics



The Summer Olympics are almost upon us, and the U.S. plans to send hundreds of its premier athletes to Paris, France, to compete for gold for the red, white, and blue. Among those athletes will be a female track star who identifies as "trans non-binary," prefers "they/them" pronouns, and even once slammed America for allegedly "hurting trans people."

On Sunday, Nikki Hiltz, a 29-year-old female mid-distance runner, finished first in the 1,500 meter event at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, thus punching her ticket for Paris for her first Olympic Games. Throughout the race, Hiltz and Elle St. Pierre, a veteran of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, were neck and neck, but in the final stretch, Hiltz turned on the jets and crossed the finish line with a personal best time of 3:55.33, beating St. Pierre's previous Olympic Trials record by two and a half seconds.

'Sometimes I wake up feeling like a powerful queen and other days I wake up feeling as if I’m just a guy being a dude, and other times I identify outside of the gender binary entirely.'

Hiltz views her win not only as a personal victory but a victory for the LGBTQ "community" as well. "This is bigger than just me. It’s the last day of Pride Month," she said. "I wanted to run this one for my community."

During the race, Hiltz said she "could just feel the love and support" from the "LGBTQ folks." "You guys brought me home that last hundred [meters]," she insisted.

Fellow runners St. Pierre and Emily Mackay will also compete for Team USA in Paris. Opening ceremonies for the 2024 Games begin on July 26.

Hiltz has been a star athlete since her days competing for the Razorbacks at the University of Arkansas. Her UA bio claims she was a member of the women's track and field team, uses female pronouns for her throughout, and even refers to her as her parents' "daughter."

Yet, somewhere along the way, Hiltz decided that she did not like the female label. In 2021, she publicly announced that she identified as "transgender." "That means I don’t identify with the gender I was assigned at birth," she clarified, according to Pink News, an outlet that promotes transgenderism and other LGBTQ issues.

She also described herself as gender "fluid." "Sometimes I wake up feeling like a powerful queen and other days I wake up feeling as if I’m just a guy being a dude, and other times I identify outside of the gender binary entirely," she explained helpfully.

Her Instagram account is filled with pictures of LGBTQ-related events and causes. She also features many pictures with her romantic partner, Emma Gee, who, according to Pink News, was the first openly LGBTQ+ athlete to compete for Brigham Young University, which is run by the LDS Church.

In another Instagram post, Hiltz even thanked NBC and its correspondent for "getting [her] pronouns correct" on a broadcast about another women's 1500m race she won last year.

Hiltz may have difficulty determining her gender on a day-to-day basis, but when she travels to France, she will compete in the women's category against competitors she describes as "people" whom she "deeply love[s] and respect[s]."

In 2021, the International Olympic Committee sidestepped the transgender issue by deferring to the organizations that govern each individual sport, and World Athletics, which governs international track and field events, has forbidden men to compete in women's events. Women who identify as transgender may compete in men's events "if they have satisfactory signed declarations of their gender identities," NBC News reported.

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‘I’m Your Mom Now’: Wisconsin Parents Take School Secrecy Policy On ‘Gender Identity’ To SCOTUS

“School is now like Las Vegas: ‘What happens at school stays at school,’" the petition before the U.S. Supreme Court contends.

Leftists tried to spin Dagny Benedict's suicide as the result of anti-LGBT bullying. The truth is far more tragic.



A so-called "nonbinary" teen died in Oklahoma last month after a fight at school. Activists seized upon the tragedy for political advantage, suggesting that Dagny Benedict was killed by anti-LGBT bullies or at the very least as the result of anti-LGBT bullying, smearing innocent teens in the process.

That narrative crumbled over time, although questions remained about Benedict's life and death.

New details have emerged, both in the Oklahoma medical examiner's full autopsy report this week and about her family, indicating not only that LGBT activists were entirely off the mark but that the truth is far worse than many had imagined.

The false narrative

Dagny Benedict was a 16-year-old sophomore at Owasso High School in Tulsa who allegedly identified as "nonbinary" and sometimes went by the name "Nex." She got into a fight with other students in the girls' washroom on Feb. 7. The next day she perished.

LGBT activists and other leftists seized upon the story of Benedict's demise to suggest that conservatives and other critics of gender ideology had cultivated an atmosphere in which it became acceptable to bully non-straight students; that Benedict had been attacked because of her so-called gender identity; and that the girl possibly even died from her injuries.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) managed to capture the narrative in a single tweet, writing, "Nex Benedict’s death from a brutal assault in their high school bathroom is outrageous and heartbreaking. The anti-trans fervor fueled by extreme Republicans across the country is having deadly consequences for our children. We must stand up against anti-trans hate."

Blaze News previously reported that Tori Cooper, a leading campaigner for the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, specifically intimated that Benedict was attacked over her "nonbinary" identification.

Cooper also pinned blame on so-called "exremist anti-LGBTQ+ hate accounts, like online troll Chaya Raichik, the woman behind 'Libs of Tiktok'" for "perpetuating a vile and hateful narrative that is permitting these types of public attacks."

The false narrative surrounding the teen's death was embraced high and low, with even President Joe Biden entertaining the notion that her fate was linked to bullying, stating, "Bullying is hurtful and cruel, and no one should face the bullying that Nex did."

This preferred narrative began to collapse after bodycam footage released by the Owasso Police Department showed Benedict admitting that she was not the target of violence but rather the very person who started the Feb. 7 fight.

Benedict also says in the video that she started the altercation because her targets mocked how she laughed, saying nothing of any anti-LGBT hostilities.

The fight was also revealed not to have been what killed Benedict. Preliminary autopsy results noted that Benedict "did not die as a result of trauma."

The autopsy results

One week after Oklahoma prosecutors indicated they had found no basis on which to file charges in the death of the teen, the Oklahoma medical examiner released the full autopsy report regarding Benedict's death.

KTUL-TV reported that the report concluded that Benedict had killed herself by taking a lethal dose of two different medications: diphenhydramine, the allergy medication also known as Benadryl, and the anti-depressant fluoxetine, also known as Prozac. Apparently she had a "massive" amount of the allergy drug in her blood.

Forensic pathologist Daniel Schultz, the president of Final Diagnosis Inc. in Tampa, Florida, reviewed the findings and told KTUL, "There's no question this was an overdose by a combination of diphenhydramine and fluoxetine."

"Essentially the dose to do this in some ways implies intent," added Schultz. "This is not an accidental type of thing."

Traces of cough suppressant and the anti-psychotic drug quetiapine were also found in her blood.

The autopsy report further stated, "Past medical history included constipation, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, self-harm (cutting), chronic tobacco abuse, and chronic marijuana abuse. Handwritten notes that are suggestive of self-harm were found in the decedent's room by family and provided to law enforcement."

The pedophile father

Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler revealed on March 21 that investigators discovered notes written by Benedict related to her suicide.

"The notes do not make any reference to the earlier fight or difficulties at school," wrote Kunzweiler. "The precise contents of the suicide note are a personal matter in which the family will have to address within the privacy of their own lives."

RedState highlighted there had been a possible hint about what Kunzweiler may have been referencing buried in a Feb. 21 Washington Post article. The article noted, "Nex's biological mother was among the mourners [at Benedict's funeral]; their father, who is in prison for abuse, was not."

Photojournalist and reporter Jeremy Lee Quinn pulled the thread earlier this month, writing, "Benedict was a survivor of child abuse."

Quinn referenced a Feb. 9 Facebook post from Benedict's aunt, who apparently wrote, "The details are still a ongoing investigation so we won't know until later but I will say justice will be served for the people that did this along side with her monster of a father who's already in prison."

The aunt said in another post, "yes [Benedict's father has] been in prison for molesting/raping his daughter. Got out on parole and was arrested yesterday."

Quinn wrote, "Nex's aunt 'disowned her brother' and posted publicly about the abuse following the passing of Nex, who Aunt Ashley says she only ever knew as Dagny."

The disowned brother, Benedict's father, is reportedly James Everette Hughes, a 39-year-old registered sex offender.

Court documents indicate Hughes raped his daughter, referred to in court documents as D.H., in 2017. His sex offender registration form indicates that Benedict was 9 when her father molested her over the course of months.

Sebastian County Sheriff's Office records indicate it wasn't until 2019 that Hughes was arrested in Arkansas for sexual assault of a child under the age of 14.

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RedState reported that one of the witnesses, the victim's grandmother Sue Benedict, later adopted the child.

Hughes ultimately pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the second degree and received five years in prison. He was arrested again by the Little Rock Police Department two weeks prior to Benedict's suicide for failing to register as a sex offender or reporting an address change.

The rapist who traumatized Benedict and apparently played a major factor in her tragic end will next appear in court in Pulaski County, Arkansas, on May 2.

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HOW are these college campus HORROR stories actually true?!



It’s no secret that the majority of our colleges have become woke indoctrination mills. From radical ideologies pushed by professors to rampant leftist activism on campus, the university model is crumbling.

But just how bad has it gotten?

According to 22-year-old journalist and sports media broadcaster Emily Austin, it’s much worse than you think.

Austin, who attended Hofstra University, tells Dave Rubin that she “had a nonbinary professor who fully forced [students] to follow ‘them’ on Instagram.”

“They would post in thongs with their male genitals out,” she tells Dave.

She also “had a classmate who identified as a cat.”

“She would lick herself, she would meow, she would wear whiskers ... in class,” says Emily, adding that when she voiced concern, she was told she was “very insensitive.”

“But do you know what wasn't insensitive according to my dean? When my professor told me you're only on camera because you're a Jew.”

When Emily was given the honor of attending the Super Bowl as a media journalist at 19 years old, she told her professor, who taught sports journalism, that she would need to miss class for one week.

She assumed he would be proud of her given the content area he taught, but unfortunately, he responded with, “If you miss my classes, I'm failing you,” and, “ You're only on camera because you're a Jew.”

However, one of her male classmates mysteriously stopped coming to class halfway through the semester but returned for the last week of class. But when he got back, he was suddenly a she.

“He missed classes because he was transitioning,” says Emily, adding that she was also “forced to take” a “Japanese sexuality class” for a communications credit.

“I learned nothing,” except “how to news write,” she says, but “they would say, ‘Write about Lia Thomas,’ so it's like even the things I learned they used for the wrong things.”

And when Emily would “call out the indoctrination going on,” she ended up “suffering with the worst grades.”

“I wrote about how Lia as an athlete ... threatens women in sports, [but] I failed, [and] everyone else got a good grade,” she tells Dave.

To hear more of Emily’s insane college experiences, watch the clip below.


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Leftist narrative around Dagny Benedict's tragic death begins to crumble under scrutiny



Dagny Benedict was a sophomore at Owasso High School in Tulsa who allegedly identified as "nonbinary." Benedict was involved in an altercation with other students on Feb. 7. The next day, she died unexpectedly.

Democrats and LGBT activists rushed to exploit the 16-year-old student's tragic passing, casting it both as a result of anti-LGBT bullying that supposedly culminated in a fatal fight and Republican policies concerning bathroom use.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for instance, suggested that the girl died from a "brutal assault" and that the "anti-trans fervor fueled by extreme Republicans across the country is having deadly consequences for our children."

Tori Cooper, a leading campaigner for the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, intimated Benedict was attacked over her "nonbinary" identification. Cooper also pinned blame on so-called "[e]xremist anti-LGBTQ+ hate accounts, like online troll Chaya Raichick, the woman behind 'Libs of Tiktok'" for "perpetuating a vile and hateful narrative that is permitting these types of public attacks."

Despite the confidence with which it has been advanced, the left's preferred narrative has crumbled under scrutiny.

Bodycam footage released Friday by the Owasso Police Department shows Benedict readily admit that she was not the target of violence but rather the initiator of the altercation.

When detailing the alleged bullying a trio of freshman girls subjected her to, Benedict says in the video that they mocked her clothing choice and laughed — making no mention of any anti-LGBT hostilities.

Police have since indicated that Benedict "did not die as a result of trauma," releasing security footage showing Benedict leave the school under her "own power."

The incident

The OPD indicated that a fight took place in a school restroom on Feb 7. It was ultimately broken up by other students and a school staff member who was supervising outside the bathrooms.

All students involved in the altercation "walked under their own power to the assistant principal's office and nurse's office," said police. In the office, school administrators contacted parents and took student statements but apparently refrained from contacting the relevant authorities about the brawl.

The school did, however, have its registered nurse assess the health of all persons involved in the altercation. Despite determining an ambulance was not necessary for Benedict, the nurse recommended the teen visit a medical facility for further examination.

Sue Benedict, the decedent's biological grandmother and guardian, called the Owasso Police Department just after 3:30 p.m. on the day of the incident requesting that an officer respond to Bailey Medical Center concerning an alleged assault that took place at Owasso High School West Campus.

Referring to Dagny Benedict as her "daughter" and employing feminine pronouns in reference to the teen, Sue Benedict indicated she wanted to press charges against the other students involved in the altercation.

In the company of her guardian at the hospital, Dagny Benedict told an officer that after stacking chairs around 1 p.m., she and her friend went to the nearby bathroom. Security footage appears to show six girls enter the bathroom in short succession ahead of the incident.

"I was talking to my friend. They were talking with their friends, and we were laughing, and they had said something like, 'Why do they laugh like that?'" Benedict told the officer. "And they were talking about us in front of us. And so I went up there and poured water on them."

Benedict confirmed to the officer that she had used a water bottle to soak the other girls who in turn allegedly responded with force.

"They came at me. They grabbed at my hair. I grabbed onto them. I threw one of them into a paper towel dispenser, and then they got my legs out from under me and got me on the ground," continued Benedict.

The officer suggested that by virtue of Benedict having allegedly started the fight, pressing charges might not have resulted in a cut-and-clear victory.

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The next day, Owasso Fire Department medics were called to the scene of a medical emergency involving Benedict.

Sue Benedict noted in her 911 call that the teen's eyes were rolled backward, she was breathing shallowly, and both her hands were curled. Sue Benedict also made passing mention of the use of anxiety medication but suggested the teen was not on any medication at the moment.

The teen was taken to St. Francis Pediatric Emergency Center in Tulsa where she later died. Her funeral was held on Feb. 15.

The OPD stressed after Benedict's death that it was investigating the incident "thoroughly" and looking for possible evidence of felony murder.

While the OPD initially indicated it was unclear whether the medical emergency was related to the Feb. 7 incident, police noted on Feb. 21 that preliminary autopsy results found that Benedict "did not die as a result of trauma." The OPD did note, however, that "any further comments on the cause of death are currently pending until toxicology results and other ancillary testing results are received."

Owaso Public Schools released the following statement: "The Owasso Police Department has notified district leaders of the death of an Owasso High School student. The student's name and cause of death have not yet been made public. As this is an active police investigation, we will have no additional comment at this time. Further inquiries should be directed to the Owasso Police Department."

Purposing tragedy

The possibilities that Benedict's tragic end had nothing to do with hate and possibly nothing to do with an altercation between the high-school girls she allegedly provoked have not gotten in the way of activists making the most out of their preferred narrative.

Freedom Oklahoma, an LGBT activist group, said in a statement using the teen's nickname, "We know that Nex Benedict, the student who died, faces being deadnamed and misgendered in death, after a horrific attack that killed Nex, possibly because of Nex's TGNC+ identity."

Freedom Oklahoma hedged its bets, adding, "[W]hether Nex died as a direct result of injuries sustained in the brutal hate-motivated attack at school or not, Nex's death is a result of being the target of physical and emotional harm because of who Nex was."

The Human Rights Campaign — which has joined Freedom Oklahoma in painting Chaya Raichik as a key villain in the story of Benedict's demise — claimed, "Nex's death also comes at a time when extremist politicians have weaponized trans and gender-expansive identities for political gain, stoking hate and discrimination through their vile rhetoric."

Tactfully campaigning off the incomplete story of Benedict's death, the HRC stressed, "We must demand better from our elected officials and reject harmful anti-transgender legislation at the local, state and federal levels, while also considering every possible way to make ending this violence a reality."

The Independent published a piece titled, "Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now Nex Benedict is dead after a fight at school." In the piece, Benedict's grandmother claimed that the decedent became the target of bullying after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) ratified legislation requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

KABC-TV was one of the many media outfits to further insinuate a link between Republican policies pushing back against radical social constructivism in schools and Benedict's death.

Against the backdrop of the teen's untimely death, KABC highlighted how Stitt has "banned the use of nonbinary gender markers on IDs, restricted gender-affirming care for trans youth and banned transgender girls from participating in girls' sports," intimating a possible connection.

On Saturday, a few hundred LGBT activists flocked to Oklahoma City to remember Benedict and use her death for political purposes.

Bryan Paddock, one of the co-founders of Rural Oklahoma Pride, told the Oklahoman, "This is us taking a stand for that person as well as our community. We need change in Oklahoma. We need change in the United States. That youth was not protected as they should have been and there's so much legislation out there that is seeking to erase or dispose of our community."

Students at Owasso High School staged a walkout Monday in protest of a supposedly pervasive culture of bullying they have been led to believe resulted in Benedict's death, reported NBC News.

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'90s X-Men reboot confirms 'nonbinary' character for Disney+ animated series

'90s X-Men reboot confirms 'nonbinary' character for Disney+ animated series



A highly anticipated reboot of popular 1990s cartoon "X-Men: The Animated Series" will change an existing character to be "nonbinary" for the new episodes, the showrunner has confirmed.

More than a month before the series' launch on Disney+, Marvel's "X-Men '97" executive producer, Beau DeMayo, revealed that a pivotal character will be presented as nonbinary, meaning they do not identify with either gender.

The original series aired from 1992-1997 and has since been heralded as one of the greatest cartoons of its era. The reboot has also had fans clamoring for nostalgia, with the trailer receiving just over 3 million views in its first six hours.

As reported by Bounding into Comics however, the character Morph — who appears in the very first episode of the original — is adapted with a "lighter" approach, despite his apparent gender confusion.

The change was confirmed by DeMayo in an interview with Empire Magazine set to appear in the April 2024 issue.

"The death of shapeshifter Morph in the original animated series (it didn't stick, obviously) was shocking for young viewers, and it stuck with DeMayo," the excerpt read. "'He really set the stakes,' [DeMayo] says, 'and he had a very interesting relationship with the team because of trauma.'"

"This is a lighter take on the character, who is nonbinary and has an interesting buddy relationship with Wolverine. The character's past with Mister Sinister, the show's villain, could also come into play."

The character is not typically remembered by casual fans, but had a pivotal role in the original 1990s pilot, in which he saves Wolverine from an attack and is killed. He is later revealed to have been rescued from the attack by a villain who then turns him evil.

Morph later rejoins the X-Men and becomes a mainstay in their group.

Although the mutant's power is shape-shifting from a cellular level, he was never portrayed in either print or the cartoons as "nonbinary," which of course was not in any youngster's vernacular in the 1990s.

Perhaps an argument in favor of the change would be that Morph can change into a woman (or any person he pleases), but his default appearance was always a male. In artwork for the reboot, he now appears alien-like even alongside other characters who generally appear the same as the original drawings.

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During a 2023 Marvel livestream event regarding the series, DeMayo stated that one of his goals for "X-Men '97" was to "really drill down to what I think the X-Men’s always going to be about which is just, you know, we talk a lot about the dream is social acceptance and it’s social justice."

"I think that can sometimes make certain people feel alienated, and for me, it’s always going to come down to, I think, the X-Men and what we’re going to be trying to do with this series is talking about the power of empathy, and how it can kind of heal these wounds that turn people against each other," the creator opined. "That things like racism and bigotry don’t ‘just exist’ – there’s a reason behind it that empathy can kind of help us connect and build those bridges where we can actually say, ‘Hey, we are all different, but we have these little things that can still connect us.'"

Only time will tell whether fans will press play on the new series or whether it will be chalked up as just another woke blunder for Marvel.

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'Non-binary' shooter behind Colorado LGBT club massacre will plead guilty to federal hate crime charges



The so-called "non-binary" shooter behind the November 2022 massacre at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs received five consecutive life sentences plus an additional 2,208 years of prison time in June. He is now set add some years to the total, pleading guilty to 74 counts of federal hate and gun crime charges.

The shooter hung out at Club Q on Nov. 19, 2022, then briefly left, returning dressed in body armor and toting a semi-automatic rifle. He proceeded to murder five people and injure 19 in what the Department of Justice characterized as a "willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated attack." While he attempted to mow down dozens of additional victims, heroic patrons at the club were able to restrain him until police arrived on the scene.

The victims killed in the shooting were Daniel Aston, 28; Kelly Loving, 40; Ashley Paugh, 35; Derrick Rump, 38; and Raymond Green Vance, 22.

The mother of Ashtin Gamblin, a victim who was riddled with bullets but nevertheless managed to survive, asked the judge presiding over the shooter's state case to "lock this animal away to the depths of hell."

Judge Michael McHenry obliged the victim's mother, ensuring the shooter, now 23, would never again walk free, with thousands of years of prison time and no chance at parole.

"That is the longest sentence ever achieved in the Fourth Judicial District and the second, to my knowledge, longest sentence ever achieved in the state of Colorado, second only to the sentence achieved in the Aurora theater shooting case," said Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen, reported CNN.

While the shooter, son of a pornographer, identified as "non-binary" in court filings for the case and indicated his pronouns were "they/them," Allen addressed him as a male throughout the case, stressing that "there is zero evidence prior to the shooting that he was non-binary."

On Tuesday, the DOJ announced the shooter had been slapped with hate crime and firearms charges.

CNN, which elected to use the shooter's preferred pronouns, reported that the shooter struck a deal with prosecutors whereby he will plead guilty to all 74 counts — including 50 hate crime charges — and in exchange receive "multiple concurrent life sentences plus additional consecutive sentences totaling 190 years imprisonment," in the event a judge approves of the plea deal.

The Jan. 9 plea agreement was unsealed Tuesday after the shooter pleaded not guilty earlier in the day, reported the Associated Press.

While the death penalty was on the table, the plea agreement would let the shooter squeak by unscathed.

"It's angering and upsetting," said Ashtin Gamblin, reported Colorado Public Radio, which revised Gamblin's comments to respect the mass shooter's preferred pronouns. "Honestly I was hoping for a death penalty."

"I feel like [they] just got grounded, personally, it feels like with the 2,208 years, it's like [they] got grounded, go sit in your room for the rest of your life," said Gamblin. "The death penalty for me. … I just want [them] to sit with the thought of not knowing when [they're] going to die, or the fact [they] could die at any day, at any time, because that’s exactly what [they] did to us."

Michael Anderson, who was bartending at the club on the night of the shooting, suggested the federal charges would send "a message to people who want to commit violent acts against this community, and lets them know this is not something that is swept away or overlooked."

The shooter told the AP that at the time of the shooting, he was on a "very large plethora of drugs" and abusing steroids.

Just over a year before the shooting, the "non-binary" shooter was reportedly arrested for threatening his grandparents and vowing to become "the next mass killer," stockpiling weapons and bomb-making materials. He was cut loose and his case was dismissed in 2021after his grandparents stopped cooperating with prosecutors.

The shooter is presently siting in the Wyoming State Penitentiary, having been relocated on account of safety concerns.

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'Parental rights really anger me': 'Non-binary' author indicates that efforts by parents to protect kids from his LGBT propaganda have prompted him to 'do it more'



A middle-aged LGBT activist who targets children with his propaganda made clear in a recent interview that parental resistance is what drives him "to do it more."

"Parental rights really anger me," Alex Gino told Yahoo Entertainment. "Because what about human rights? People who are under 18 are human. ... And if you are keeping information about the world from young people, you are leaving them less prepared to learn how to be in the world."

Gino, a 45-year-old man who refers to himself as a sexually unspecific plurality, further suggested that efforts by parents to exercise their natural rights to protect their children from propaganda and pornography were not motivated by love but rather "fear that looks like anger."

What's the background?

Following Scholastic's publication of his 2015 novel, "George," Gino fast became a darling of Democrats and other leftists, particularly those helming classrooms and stocking bookshelves.

Gino's book is about a young boy named George whose mental illness puts him at odds not just with his body but with classmates during a class production of "Charlotte's Web" — a play in which George wants to play the titular female character.

Gino, originally from New York, changed the name of his novel to "Melissa" in 2021, having realized he had "deadnamed" the book's protagonist.

Over the past several years, the two-titled book was introduced to children's sections in various schools and libraries around the country, drawing the ire of parents who recognized that this particular work of LGBT propaganda wasn't age-appropriate.

The Des Moines Register noted that some critics took issue with the bath scene in the novel, where Gino's fourth-grade character "immersed her body in the warm water and tried not to think about what was between her legs, but there it was, bobbing in front of her."

The New York Post highlighted another questionable scene in the novel, besides the talk of "dirty" magazines, which reads: "She had since read on the Internet you could take girl hormones that would change your body, and you could get a bunch of different surgeries if you wanted them and had the money. This was called transitioning. ... You could even start before you were eighteen with pills called androgen blockers that stopped the boy hormones already inside you from turning your body into a man’s."

The American Library Association, led by self-proclaimed "Marxist lesbian" Emily Drabinski, alleged that the book was the most challenged book of 2020, which appears to have been little more than a promotional tag for works of kid-facing LGBT propaganda.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) was among the Democrats who defended the book from parent critics whilst opposing legislation that would require public school administrators to seek parental consent before changing a child's gender status and to disclose all curricula and reading lists.

Gino knows what's best for your kids

The 45-year-old propagandist told Yahoo Entertainment that "[a]dults are not great at knowing what's in the world. Kids are great at it. Kids are constantly learning what's in the world and taking on new ideas. ... Many adults feel like they have already learned who should be in the world, and if someone goes against their notion of that, they are somehow immoral. And there's a particular panic about showing that or immorality to young people."

Gino, who on X has called for reparations and for police to be defunded, suggested that parents who have identified immoralities being foisted on their children "think their goal is for their children not to live in the real world. Their goal is to shield their children from the reality of other people and the reality of themselves. And I think that goal is extremely harmful."

"If my book is going to get challenged, that to me is a sign that there are more stories that I need to write," continued Gino. "And so I'm writing now about queer and trans kids who don't just exist but who know each other and who have community and who get to thrive. If [parents are] going to say, 'Don't do it,' then I better not tell myself not to do it. I better do it more."

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