Why The Zizian Transgender Death Cult Could Be A Tipping Point
The story has everything we have learned to expect
A murderous group of too-online transgender vegan fanatics calling themselves “Zizians” is allegedly responsible for five murders across the country, including a Border Patrol agent who was killed on Inauguration Day.
Cult leader Jack Amadeus LaSota, known as “Ziz,” prefers she/her pronouns. Naturally, the San Francisco Chronicle obliged. So did SFist.com, a San Francisco news site. Confusion reigned, however, as California news site Open Vallejo and then Vermont news site VT Digger both used “they” to “misgender” LaSota. National Post, a Canadian news site, used both “he” and “they” referring to LaSota.
Maximilian Snyder, a group member charged with murdering a witness against the cult, prefers “any pronouns.” Reporters have dutifully used male pronouns for him. One of the five living cult members named in reporting, Theresa Youngblut, is female. Every outlet that has reported the story so far has used female pronouns f…
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