Charlie Kirk is dead. Americans must face why.

His murder was not random, not confusing, not detached from the battles he fought so fiercely in life. It was the direct consequence of his bold refusal to bend before one of the most aggressive and destabilizing ideologies of our time: transgender radicalism.

For years, Kirk warned about the dangers of this movement. Not just its cultural consequences, but the deeper crisis of mental illness and violence it has unleashed across the nation. In the end, his voice was silenced by precisely the pestilence he spent his career opposing.

The facts are painfully clear. On Sept. 13, 2025, police captured Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old suspect in Kirk’s murder, after a tense 33-hour manhunt that spanned cities and involved local law enforcement working with the FBI. Robinson had been living in a shared apartment in Saint George, Utah, with roommates, including Lance Twiggs, a young man “transitioning” from male to female.

The shooting itself occurred two days earlier, during Kirk’s “American Comeback” speaking tour at Utah Valley University in Orem, south of Provo. Kirk was engaging with students on subjects including gun violence and transgender issues when he was struck in the neck by a sniper’s bullet. Moments before, a student had asked him about the number of transgender mass shooters over the past decade.

The irony was crushing: a man known for exposing the dangers of transgender activism was gunned down in the very event he addressed the link between that ideology and violence.

Investigators quickly pieced together Robinson’s motive. Utah Governor Spencer Cox noted that Robinson, though raised in a conservative family, had veered leftward politically, lashing out at Kirk during a family dinner shortly before the event. Robinson’s romantic partner, Twiggs, fully cooperated with investigators and had no prior knowledge of the attack.

Yet text messages revealed the killer’s thinking in stark terms. Hours after the shooting, Robinson confessed to........

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