Here’s something you won’t see every day but that I expect we might be seeing more often. A man who identifies as a woman (Amber McLaughlin) was executed for murder in Missouri on Tuesday.
A Missouri inmate was put to death Tuesday for a 2003 killing, in what is believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the U.S.
Amber McLaughlin, 49, was convicted of stalking and killing a former girlfriend, then dumping the body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis. McLaughlin’s fate was sealed earlier Tuesday when Republican Gov. Mike Parson declined a clemency request.
AP notes that since the resumption of the death penalty in the mid-seventies, 1558 people have received some form of state execution (deserving or not), of which 17 were women. That’s 1.09% of the total, nearly double the average healthy adult’s odds of dying from COVID-19. So, not a prominent figure, no matter what size the trans woman is.
Should we expect that percentage of trans woman executions to rise with the dysfunctional cultural tide?
I suppose it must.
Trans women come in two varieties. There are those with gender dysphoria, of which there are certainly a few, with a mental illness for which transition is prescribed but won’t always “cure.” Then there are those that will pretend to gain access to women in what were once safer spaces. The latter may or may not post-conviction persist in their parody; there are, after all, more women in the women’s prison. If the government is content to shack you up with your criminal vice, then who are you to object? You’re already in jail.
Mathematically, you are taking men who are not uncomfortable violating established mores and labeling them, penis appended or not, as another one of the girls. Sooner or later, enough of them will do enough terrible things in places with the Death Penalty that it will add up.
Amber is the Yuri Gagarin of space flight, the Neil Armstrong of moonwalks, or Barry Soetoro of Oval Office occupiers. Another first that only a man could be allowed to accomplish. The first man executed as a woman.
You’d think the lefties would be screaming for some red flag law for that before it gets out of hand.
I guess congratulations are in order. The transgender spectrum has its first death row execution.
Have they made a flag for that yet?
