How Does The Press Determine Which Pronouns To Use For A Transgender Killer?

Do boobs on a man make the difference?

During February, we finally got to see the interrogation video of Julia Egler. She was interviewed wearing a Tyvek ‘paper suit’ because her clothing had been taken for evidentiary analysis. Egler allegedly killed her mother and her mother’s boyfriend because she felt “misgendered”. No greater crime exists in the magical world of gender identity.

Kelly McCollom, the mother Egler murdered, “was like trying to kind of like meet me in the middle, but it wasn’t working all the time”, Egler told detectives. Her mother used the gender-neutral word ‘child’ instead of her chosen name, Jasper. “I would always try to remind her that this isn’t a phase”, Julia said of her adolescent identity-formation phase.

Egler first shot both victims with a .38 revolver, then continued to stab Matthew Szejnrock, her mother’s boyfriend, with a knife. Egler then loaded another bullet into the gun to finish executing Szejnrock before calling 911 in an attempt to blame the grisly crime on a home invasion.

Egler was 16 at the time. Now 17, and indicted by a grand jury, she is being tried as an adult. Her lawyer is now arguing the case should be thrown out because the interrogation video of her confession was released, and because detectives told Egler she would face lesser punishment as a minor.

In fact police are allowed to lie as much as they want in order to obtain a confession, while interrogation videos get released ahead of trial all the time, most often by defense counsel. Egler cannot claim self-defense against the supposed violence of ‘misgendering’. She may have believed this falsehood very deeply, but it was false.

More notable is that none of the media outlets covering the Egler case refer to her as a male or use masculine pronouns, whereas Collin Troy Bailey has consistently enjoyed both favors from the press. He is referred to as “Mia”, she/her, in news stories about his brutal murder of both parents for the crime of interrupting his gender journey.

Bailey’s mother contacted his vaginoplasty surgeon to let them know her son is schizophrenic. Any rational plastic surgeon would want to know this fact in order to avoid malpractice liability.

When the surgeon canceled, Collin became enraged and confronted his mother. “She can’t say sorry to save her life, apparently”, he told detectives. He felt entitled to commit murder, since this was ‘actual murder’. Collin is now serving a 50-year sentence in a Utah prison.

Gender ideology tells its victims that they are entitled to family support when it is entirely normal for parents to resist their children being drawn into a medicalized cult of self-harm. Due to his mental health issues, Bailey was not less vulnerable than Egler for being a decade older. Yet one is referred to with correctly-sexed pronouns, the other is not.

Perhaps the most striking thing about these two videos are the voices of the suspects. Egler is clearly and unmistakably female, while Bailey is clearly and unmistakably male, no matter how ‘effeminate’ he acts. What explains the differential treatment by the press? Is it Bailey’s bosom that convinced professional journalists to endorse his sense of entitlement?

The discrepancy becomes all the more glaring with a ‘nonbinary’ killer. Rhamell Burke, also known by his stage name Rhamell Burke-Missouri, is a Broadway dancer who recently killed a complete stranger, 76-year-old Ross Falzone, by shoving him down a subway staircase.

Burke had been released from a psychiatric hold at Bellevue just hours earlier after police took him into custody for threatening them with a stick. He is being held without bail at Riker’s Island. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is blaming the hospital and demanding a review of discharge procedures. He should be careful, because the most likely answer for Burke’s favorable treatment is his evident membership in the LGBTQMOUSE club.

While Broadway World confuses readers by referring to Burke as “they”, so far, the coverage is dominated by male pronouns and references to a 32-year old “man”. Perhaps it is because Burke showed up to court in pants and a hoodie, with his head shaved, instead of red-carpet ready, with a wig. Or perhaps it is because he lacks a bosom like the one Collin Troy Bailey has.

Left: Rhamell Burke in ‘nonbinary’ drag. Right: Rhamell Burke smiling in court.

Are evident boobs the determining factor in whether the press respects a transgender killer’s identity? Evidence for this thesis grows stronger all the time. If you are a premium subscriber, consider the case of Daniel Roush, a 39-year-old man who goes by ‘Jazzlyn’. If you are not a premium subscriber, consider upgrading to read the rest.