The real story is “Mentally Ill Person with a History of Knife Crime Stabs Mail Carrier in Fight”
The fact they are trans is less of a factor here than the fact they have a history of knife violence.
If a WASP with a trump shrine has mental health issues and kills 4 people it’s mental health issues.
If anyone not fitting the conservative mold, even if they have mental health issues, kills people it’s about their differences from the mold that come first. “Mental health” might get a one line mention at the bottom of the article.
Anyone murdering someone that shows no remorse for the death is probably not mentally sound regardless of who you are.
This person has a history of knife crimes so it isn’t a stretch to presume mental illness is a factor.
My comment was regarding how the press, the Post in particular, handle crimes if they can get more views by making it about lgbtq. I had no intent to offer an unqualified diagnosis of the person in the OP article.
That’s my point, gender has no relation to violent crimes, bringing it up in the headline is just bigoted
It was kind of a factor in that the mailman called her a f****t and that would be misgendering but Im not going to suggest that was the Post’s motivation
Tgis might be an important detail to put in the post, but in the headline? It makes no sense past bigotry
I take issue with OP’s headline and the Post’s.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
To the people who consider them being trans headline-worthy, “trans person” and “mentally-ill person” are synonyms.