Last month in Minneapolis, Robin Westman, a 23-year-old man who had identified as a transgender woman, drove to the Annunciation Catholic Church with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. He fired more than 100 rounds through the windows during the back-to-school Mass, leaving two children dead and nearly 20 people injured.

The media wasted little time muddying the waters. The New York Times proclaimed that “we may never know” Westman’s true motivation and dutifully identified him as a woman with “she” and “her” pronouns. At a press conference held the day after the attack, Joe Thompson, the acting US Attorney for the District of Minnesota, curiously began his remarks by pointing out that Westman had expressed hatred toward other groups besides Catholics.

Reporting in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on the shooting seemed more concerned about a potential backlash against the transgender community than the fact that Catholics had been gunned down in their place of worship.

We have spoken with parishioners at Annunciation who are shocked by the media’s attempt to downplay the shooter’s anti-Catholic sentiments and the role of........

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