Transgender Death Cult Shifts The Conversation About 'Preferred Pronouns'

Changes to the media landscape are forcing confrontations in the newsrooms

Dr. Todd Grande is a professional counselor and a very successful YouTuber. He avoids politics, but he does not shy away from controversial stories. His depth of understanding, calm demeanor, and consistent methodology have convinced more than 1.5 million people to subscribe to his channel. To put that in perspective, Dr. Grande probably gets more actual views each week than MSNBC. Americans also trust Dr. Grande more than MSNBC because he is grounded in reality and never spins the facts to fit any sort of narrative. Truth is his guidestar.

Yesterday, Dr. Grande published a video on the Zizians transgender death cult. “‘Intrinsically Gifted’ Transgender Women Tied to Bizarre Murders” makes several important points about the Zizians. Most importantly, he notes that cult leader Jack Amadeus ‘Ziz’ LaSota attracted spiritual seekers who already held extreme beliefs such as veganism and transgenderism. LaSota never committed an act of violence or took part in acts of violence by group members. Instead, he “inspired them to act on their current beliefs” and “unlocked their inner antisocial behavior.”

After Dr. Grande had signed off on his topic, he added a rare editorial comment. Dr. Grande uses preferred pronouns in professional settings “to be polite,” he says, but the media has been too focused on the demands of transgender advocacy in its coverage of the Zizians story. Emphases added:

One disturbing element that has come out of this case is the reaction by the media. This case involved four murders. It’s pretty serious. Despite this, the media seems concerned about “deadnaming” and the use of preferred pronouns. So they’re saying people have been “misgendered,” and this is really the worst thing that could happen in all of society. I can appreciate that they want to argue. Everyone should have the chance to promote their political beliefs. But it seems like the mainstream media is simply trying to verbalize every thought that comes into their minds. They don’t know how to read the room. Sometimes a story is so heartbreaking and terrible, it’s okay not to promote a political position for a few minutes. It seems like a distraction which will only alienate potential supporters. People don’t want to hear about deadnaming and misgendering when they’re burying loved ones. This type of tactic represents a misplaced priority which shifts attention away from key issues like justice for the victims and preventing more pain and suffering.

Dr. Grande says the quiet part out loud: “preferred pronouns” are inherently political, and the use of wrong-sex pronouns destroys audience trust in the people and institutions which enforce that political belief on them. In the video, Dr. Grande attempts to achieve clarity of language by using the pronouns that apply to the preferred name of each person. This only creates further confusion, but he is at least being transparent.

He also uses the phrase “transgender women” in the title as if the accused are not men. Dr. Grande knows quite well that the men in this group are men exhibiting male pattern criminality; that even Teresa Youngblut, a female member of the group, is participating in violent male-pattern crimes by, for, and with men. We should not get mad at Dr. Grande, however, for like most Americans, he is still in the process of deprogramming himself. America was taken over by the transgender cult at large without mainstream media coverage that the takeover was even happening, and it is hard for people who do not understand they are in a cult to see their way out of one.

As much as I like Dr. Grande, his profession played a huge role in popularizing the fad of transgender identity politics. Here is the video by Dr. Grande. It is well worth watching:

“I guess the lesson in this case is that when somebody adopts an extreme belief system, it doesn’t take much to motivate them to take extreme actions,” Dr. Grande says. Appearing in a clip on Fox News.com, actor and cult survivor Dar Dixon noted that transgenderism implicates sex and sexuality, one of the key cult control mechanisms along with dietary restriction, sleep deprivation, and policing emotions and thoughts.

LaSota was just one person with a blog. Transgender advocacy has countless online fora where members of the transgender cult at large banish their doubts and deepen their commitment to belief in a gendered being-ness that is somehow separate from their material, biological flesh. When you see videos of people with colorful hair demanding their city councils create sanctuary cities, it is because they share a belief in apocalyptic “transgender genocide” with the Zizians cult. Of all the ideologies which shaped their ideas, only transgenderism escapes media scrutiny.

The San Francisco Chronicle has consistently used preferred pronouns for LaSota and a second group member, “Gwen” Danielson, in their written coverage. While their coverage has been the most detailed, a tyranny of newsroom activists and journalism style guides written by the transgender lobby prevents the Chronicle from betraying the cult of transgender identity by using clear and correct language.

It is difficult to trust the news from people who lie. Perhaps understanding this, Chronicle reporters have spoken from scripts, going out of their way to avoid using pronouns altogether. Watch the story from the Vallejo, California local NBC affiliate, for example. “I want to start off by acknowledging just how confusing this case is, there are a lot of people involved,” reporter Sarah McGrew says. Cult names are used in the segment; “they” is used to refer to multiple group members; all other pronouns are carefully avoided. This is the legacy media attempting to maintain, or else regain, audience trust while avoiding the latent power of cancel culture.

Aside from Fox News, NBC is the only national news network to cover the story as a result of their Vallejo affiliate’s reporting. At first, NBC journalist Rich Shapiro used male pronouns for Felix Bauckholt, the German-born Wall Street math genius who was killed in an Inauguration Day shootout with the Border Patrol. But then Shapiro dutifully switched to female pronouns in his follow-up coverage, suggesting in between the two stories, there were some editorial instructions about ‘misgendering.’ We cannot blame Shapiro for wanting to keep his job, but it is a good example of the deep capture of corporate media policy.

Leading the way since he first broke the story is Andy Ngo, who has obtained video of LaSota speaking in 2013 as a NASA intern. In the clip, LaSota comes across as highly intelligent, quite autistic, slender and geeky — classic tropes of transgenderism in general and autogynephilia in particular. Ngo has used masculine pronouns for LaSota throughout his coverage.

Also, he does not script his remarks. I perceive that he may use prompts, such as snippets of text from his tweets and other written reporting, but Andy Ngo clearly extemporizes on camera. He comes across as an honest reporter speaking his own mind. If he gets something wrong, he corrects himself. Honest, truthful reporting has engendered audience trust in Ngo. He does not lie to them and his audience grows.

In this clip, Ngo also covers the hilarious story of LaSota faking his death while under arrest as well as the not-at-all-hilarious incompetence of law enforcement, courts, and prosecutors who let LaSota get away with murder. The phrase ‘trans women’ is a political stealth technology that conceals male-pattern criminality behind the makeup and long hair of a man. It is both shield and sword against accountability.

Legacy media organizations — what used to be called ‘mainstream media’ — have lost audience share to emerging platforms that used to be called ‘social media’ because they lost audience trust. YouTube is now the top streaming service, while X (deadname Twitter) is the primary channel for breaking and developing news stories. ‘Old media’ is under tremendous pressure by ‘new media.’ This is why politicians want to control social media platforms, or avoid letting the CCP control the social media platforms Americans use, and so on.

For a decade, the cult of transgender identity captured news organizations and set the standards for journalistic coverage of all things transgender. The Zizians story has serious Charles Manson energy and implicates transgender ideology. So far, the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, ABC, and CBS have not covered the story at all. Their silence will eventually resolve when the case ends in a spectacle that requires them to say something about the political ideology which has captured them.

By that point, all the trusted media voices will either be using correct-sex pronouns, avoiding pronouns, or using some mix of pronouns that is unacceptable to the broader transgender cult, its style guides, its cancel culture, or its corporate DEI kommissariat. Ngo, the ‘right wing’ news source, is having none of it anymore. The left-liberal Chronicle reporters are attempting to minimize the issue. Dr. Grande, who prefers the middle path, is still working out what that is. Not quite the change we want, yet, but it is still change in our time.

UPDATE: Andy Ngo spoke to a local ABC affiliate tonight.