One might suppose that the contest over pronouns would end, if anywhere, at the threshold of mass murder. But in the case of the Minneapolis school shooting, it only got worse.

Within hours of an evil murderous rampage at Annunciation Catholic School, commentators on the right seized on the opportunity to bash transgender people when it was revealed the suspect, Robin Westman, was a one of them. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem led the charge on X. The New York Post featured the killer’s own words from a journal prominently on its front page: “I wish I never brain-washed myself.”

Progressive mainstream outlets, on the other hand, bent over backwards to handle pronouns. The story first appeared in The New York Times below the fold under the headline “Minneapolis’s Suspect’s Motive is a Mystery.” On the homepage, Westman wasn’t given a pronoun at all. Click through and the lead reads: “The person who the police say opened........

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