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The Transgender Lunacy Has to Stop

By August 29, 2025Commentary6 min read

The school shooting in Minneapolis is beyond horrific; I literally cannot find words to describe the impact of this act.  Imagine yourself in these parents’ and siblings’ and classmates’ shoes.  This is a child that you have loved and nurtured from birth.  A child you will never talk to again, never hold, never watch grow into a productive human being.  Imagine having to dispose of this child’s clothes, his or her toys, his or her books and games.  Imagine the hole in your life, as you suddenly no longer wake them in the morning, prepare them for their school day, talk to them about how their day went, help them with all the problems of growing up, put them to bed at night.  This kind of grief is literally unimaginable.

The shooter also cannot be described adequately, what kind of despicable human being this was.  The media of course is hiding the fact that he was transgender and that in his warped mind he was taking some action to advance the transgender agenda.  This is a group of mentally ill, delusional, violence prone individuals who should never be allowed near a weapon and who need intensive mental health care.  But instead they get “affirmation”.  And Wesman apparently also had regrets about his “transgenderism”, recognizing in some way that it had made his life worse.  But no one helped find a way out, a way back to sanity.  Instead his insanity was reinforced.

Wesman is just one of a growing number of young people whose lives have been turned topsy-turvy when captured by this warped ideology.  Anyone who has any struggles with the challenges of growing up, particularly as a teenager or young adult, is now encouraged to believe that those issues may be because they are born in the wrong body or are “non-binary”.  People with normal mental health concerns are being told they should take extreme measures–dangerous drugs, surgery–to fix them.  We are creating a whole population of delusional lunatics whose problems aren’t being solved but worsened.  And the Dem party is responsible for this and wants to ignore the consequences.

The Dems of course want to try to make this about firearm availability.  It has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with the kind of mental health problems our society, under Dem leadership, is creating.  If your policies are crazy, you will get crazy people who do violent things to other people.  What do you think the impact of demonizing young men, white people, Christians, anyone who works hard will be?  What do you think the effect of telling children they were born in the wrong body, they have toxic masculinity, they are privileged, they are racists, they live in a horrible country, and on and on will be?  Wesman was a perfect examplar of today’s radical progressives—Trump obsessed, anti-semitic, racist to the core, buying into whacked gender ideology, and believing that violence against anyone who is different than you is not just acceptable, but mandatory.

Let’s lay the blame exactly where it belongs.  Our Governor, the literal lying idiot Little Timmy Walz, the Incompetent Blowhard, was asked to provide protection for churches and schools a long time ago, and refused to do it.  He and the Dems refused in the last legislative session to provide money for schools to basically all have security guards.  He has relentlessly promoted the transgender agenda and ignored the obvious violence committed by this group.  He views children as social tools to be indoctrinated with extreme political and gender ideology.  He encourages violence against his political opponents.  Little Timmy has made the state a “refuge” for the delusional transgender nuts like Wesman.  And Mayor Frey is even worse,  expressing more concern for and defending the transgender “community”, which is not a community, it is a cult.  At the same time he demeans Christians and by extension, the victims.  And anyone who dares to point out the obvious mental health and violence issues perpetrated by those who are “transgender” is immediately demonized as a hater.  These Dem politicians are beyond despicable.

Parents are to blame as well.  Wesman’s parents, instead of insisting that he get real mental health for his obvious problems, facilitated his “transition”.  What he was transitioning to was a violent nutcase.  They undoubtedly knew he had weapons, knew he was unstable, yet did nothing to warn the authorities or take his weapons away from him.  This is not parenting, it is facilitation of mental illness.

The health care providers who were involved with Wesman are also to blame.  We have a whole segment of the medical community that is more interested in promoting political and gender ideology than in the real well-being of patients.  They make a fortune creating and treating “diseases” like supposed gender dysphoria.  They hand out dangerous drugs like candy, worsening a patient’s mental health.  Just like the parents, there were undoubtedly medical professionals who were aware of his issues and warned no one, made no effort to talk to law enforcement to ensure that he did not have access to weapons.

There is a whole universe of literally lunatic websites dedicated to promoting transgender violence.  Wesman apparently regularly visited these websites and posted there.  How these can even be allowed to exist is beyond belief.  The companies and people who operate these websites should be prosecuted and the sites should immediately be removed.  Any social media site that in any manner promotes or allows the publication of this reinforcing gibberish is responsible for what happens as a result of this messaging.

Suing and prosecuting the parents, providers and websites won’t bring back the dead children, won’t make up for the incalculable mental health damage caused to siblings, parents, classmates.  But it will help bring justice and prevent future tragedies like this.  The most important thing we all can do is insist that politicians stop catering to the transgender lunacy and get all references to this hideously destructive garbage out of schools.  If you are parents, make sure your children understand that they are fine in the body they are born with–give them real affirmation.  Until we do this, we will continue to have this epidemic of violence by those who think they are “transgender”.

Kevin Roche

Author Kevin Roche

The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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Join the discussion 8 Comments

  • David says:

    Thank you 👍

  • Cindy Lee says:

    Thank you for yet another perfectly worded commentary. It’s the only good thing coming out of this despicable event.

  • Mark says:

    Well said. When Minnesota’s own Lt. Governor sports t-shirts advocating violence against opponents of trans-ideology, it’s not at all surprising that someone with mental health issues would follow her advice.

  • Name withheld due to first cousin attending that church. says:

    Just an observation ( of which I could be wrong) –

    Mental illness as best I can tell is genetic which means its inherited from the parents.
    There is also evidence that in many transgender cases, its the mother that pushes (inflicts) the transgender confusion to the male child often starting at an early age. Appears that is the case in the MN case.

    A side note, my first cousin is active member of that church and her children attended that school (graduated more than 10 years ago)

  • Rob says:

    The parents have no choice. The Dems passed legislation that the parents either affirm the child’s delusions or they become wards of the state.

    As much as Walz is a problem, the source of this is really JB and Penny Pritzker who are hardcore trans advocates and bankroll any politician that will take their side. They bankrolled Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, biden, and Harris. They’ve been bankrolling far-left candidates in Wisconsin too so there is no doubt in my mind they backed Walz and Frey.

    Go find out where teachers unions in blue states have their conventions, in all likelihood they will be in a Pritzker-owned hotel. The corruption of that family is farther than you can imagine.

    • Cindy Lee says:

      I don’t agree that the parents have no choice. They don’t have to live in Minnesota.

  • Jim says:

    I have read in 20 states what is referred to “conversion therapy” is against the law. In fact, the Supreme Court is set to hear a case challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors – Chiles v. Salazar. At present I am not sure what mental help a person will get. Laws across the nation seems to favor transgender industry.

    • Kevin Roche says:

      It is criminal to ban kids from getting real gender-affirming care–helping them be happy with the body they were born in.

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