I came across this in an article by JL on Graham Linehan’s substack (with an archived link to the article). I can’t begin to explain how angry it made me especially the line where the killer says he might not have committed the atrocities if he'd "accepted himself earlier" - I haven’t seen Trans Ideology Derangement Syndrome this bad for a long time. Absolutely sickening.
First off, weak words, but I am so, so sorry for your own ineradicable loss. Therefore, I am all the more grateful that you are able to take that devastating experience and put it to such important use. I have restacked.
I really appreciate that Susan. This one came from my heart absolutely. The whole time I read the article I just kept thinking about the family and imagining if this was my brother’s family having to see it. I know Welles would be proud of me, and I know his sister will be reading it this morning. She’s finishing up her masters in psych right now.
It sickens me that the MOJ are perpetuating this too by buying into the gender ideology, yet again men’s feelings over women and girls lives and reality, everyone should be very ashamed.
Sometimes the sickness and depravity. not of the murderers and rapists who commit uinthinkable atrocities, but of the "normal" people who don't stand against it, is disheartening to me. Hannah Arendt called it the "banality of evil". That term is exactly what the Newsweek article exemplifies: the banality of evil. There must be a special place in hell for those who defend the perpetrators of such evil.
Ardent was an important writer to me. Both The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition were books that influenced me in my 20’s. A special place for sure
Violent male offenders transitioning to escape the full consequences of their criminal acts and to gain access to women's prisons and thus its female residents is a dangerous, despicable growing trend. It is abominable that society encourages, condones and allows it.: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/this-never-happens
I wasn't a fan of Trump but voted for him because the Dems have gone off the rails and because he had RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard on his team. I'm grateful he is putting a stop to this insanity in the US - if the courts allow it to stand.
Horrified and shocked and so sorry for all the terrible loss and pain, yours, the survivor of this.
Thank you for writing this.
This is perhaps what happens when you rank everyone in terms of oppression and say the most important and valued person is the one who is most oppressed. This is a horrific example.
It's morally bankrupt. No society should be using this approach.
Identity was used to determine who is morally "right" and who is valuable as a human being. Not sure I said it right. The most oppressed, it seems, can do no wrong. This is where it leads.
I'm just so sorry for all the lost lives and suffering.
Yes and to be clear: only those with the approved identities can be considered "oppressed". It's not oppression to be the victim of such a person, if one's identity isn't approved of. Only the subset of approved identities get to have their oppression ranked.
I've seen this in academia, where the rules preventing oppression of students by other students or by professors just aren't enforced for students of certain identities. The same language, even when absolutely justified ("I feel unsafe", "this was a violation") is even laughed at, when it's not coming from someone with the approved identity. At least that's the case when it's an approved identity committing the oppression.
It's everywhere, is what I mean to say. This horrific example of what happened to the Petit family is at the pinnacle of a wide and tall heap of bones.
Trans ideology is the end game for patriarchy. The misogyny is off the charts, but more importantly the psychopathy of patriarchy and its hatred for women and children and men who defend them is plain to see. Whatever happened to the male human at some point in our evolution created a monster - a man who demands to be seen as a woman even as he becomes our most terrifying predator. This is driving all of humanity insane. The fact that some men are standing up against this ideology may seem like it will turn this around, but what I see happening is patriarchy retrenching and creating such a threat that women will think they have no choice but to regress back into servitude. Women will not back down. This truly is an epic battle between male humans and female humans. It will be patriarchy and its dominate and control mindset that will have created this war.
Fortunately, the courage of women and especially mothers in the face of this psychopathy is a fiercer quality to reckon with. No matter how deep the envy and hatred men have for women, it can never, ever displace the love mothers have for their children. To their last breath women will defend the lives that they bring into this world, because that is what they must do. Mother Nature will, of course, have her way with those men who perpetrate this nightmare.
I agree with you. But I am interested to know your take on why so many women, and mothers in particular, not only support this nonsense, but are also aggressive to us who oppose it.
Some it’s fear and others just virtue signal without thinking. Or a Yests once wrote: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
She died as a result of her physical disabilities ( brain damage at birth) and her medical fragility. So I know the despair, but her death was not caused by somebody else intentionally and I cannot imagine what you have gone through, so again, my compassion and gratitude to you.
Unfortunately, this is the road my former party (the Democratic Party) has gone down on crime generally and crime by the transgendered in particular. In addition they endorse the mutilation of children in the name of gender affirming health care. A separate but equally obscene crime. May they perish in hell for what they have done to the innocent.
I read your excellent post LeAnne and also the original article in Newsweek. It seems to me that there is a religiosity to this and as such is a dangerous precedent for retrospective justification of crimes. We have to be wary of making it acceptable for people to disown their actions by being 'born again' as someone else.
From the name change it seems he is trying to shift ethnicities too. What was once absurd is now mainstream and it occurs to me that in the future, following the current trajectory, people with want to expunge their criminal records on the grounds they are not the same person - it's seems crazy to suggest it, but it is only as unthinkable as altering birth certificates once was.
I did some checking of my own.
If he is 61 he was born in 1964 and he says he was diagnosed with 'gender dysphoria' at age 16. I checked and that diagnosis did not exist until DSM-5 in 2013. DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) contains the latest definitions of currently accepted diagnoses.
However, in 1980, the year he claims to have been diagnosed, DSM-3 had just introduced the diagnosis of 'gender identity disorder' that would eventually be superseded 33 years later in DSM-5.
In the first place, I find it difficult to believe that a 16 year old would immediately be given that diagnosis in 1980 and secondly, that it was never discussed with him. I don't claim to know for sure but it looks a lot like invention to me.
It doesn't seem to have spiked Newsweek's curiosity to ask how he found about about the diagnosis years after the fact; how he'd managed to forget he had a problem or what tests or examinations were made at the time. Presumably he was not diagnosed by being observed in the wild through binoculars.
Newsweek publish these claims with the flimsy caveat of not being able to verify he was diagnosed with anything at age 16. Hayes obviously knew that they couldn't validate/invalidate his statements because the truth would be information under the protection of HIPAA.
It's awful journalism that somehow reduces his heinous crimes, which included rape and murder of three females. The mother was strangled and the two young girls (11 and 17 years old) were tied to their beds and burnt alive in the house.
Newsweek did reach out to the father of the family, William Petit. He had survived the home invasion by Hayes and accomplice, despite being beaten with baseball bats and left for dead. They wanted to know if Petit had any comment on Hayes' transition. What despicable ***ts.
If this doesn't wake more people up to how corporate media has become a propaganda machine, I don't know what will. This was just absolutely disgusting on so many levels.
I remember this case, I had no idea that the murderer is now pulling the gender stunt. Sadly I am not surprised that Newsweek would run a story like this the mainstream media have been pushing a lot of stuff for way too long, and people are getting really tired of it. I feel so bad for the families of the victims who have to deal with this all over again now.
Newsweek would never publish an interview with Jaime Reed or Helen Joyce, and yet it feels free to run THIS?
Yikes.
Exactly
I came across this in an article by JL on Graham Linehan’s substack (with an archived link to the article). I can’t begin to explain how angry it made me especially the line where the killer says he might not have committed the atrocities if he'd "accepted himself earlier" - I haven’t seen Trans Ideology Derangement Syndrome this bad for a long time. Absolutely sickening.
It’s disgusting almost suggesting that perhaps others will do this if we don’t let them transition. This is platforming a sick killer
First off, weak words, but I am so, so sorry for your own ineradicable loss. Therefore, I am all the more grateful that you are able to take that devastating experience and put it to such important use. I have restacked.
I really appreciate that Susan. This one came from my heart absolutely. The whole time I read the article I just kept thinking about the family and imagining if this was my brother’s family having to see it. I know Welles would be proud of me, and I know his sister will be reading it this morning. She’s finishing up her masters in psych right now.
It sickens me that the MOJ are perpetuating this too by buying into the gender ideology, yet again men’s feelings over women and girls lives and reality, everyone should be very ashamed.
Very ashamed.
Sometimes the sickness and depravity. not of the murderers and rapists who commit uinthinkable atrocities, but of the "normal" people who don't stand against it, is disheartening to me. Hannah Arendt called it the "banality of evil". That term is exactly what the Newsweek article exemplifies: the banality of evil. There must be a special place in hell for those who defend the perpetrators of such evil.
Ardent was an important writer to me. Both The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition were books that influenced me in my 20’s. A special place for sure
Violent male offenders transitioning to escape the full consequences of their criminal acts and to gain access to women's prisons and thus its female residents is a dangerous, despicable growing trend. It is abominable that society encourages, condones and allows it.: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/this-never-happens
I wasn't a fan of Trump but voted for him because the Dems have gone off the rails and because he had RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard on his team. I'm grateful he is putting a stop to this insanity in the US - if the courts allow it to stand.
I spoke with someone who knows a good bit on that subject and she said it was the worst men pedophiles and snitches
Horrified and shocked and so sorry for all the terrible loss and pain, yours, the survivor of this.
Thank you for writing this.
This is perhaps what happens when you rank everyone in terms of oppression and say the most important and valued person is the one who is most oppressed. This is a horrific example.
It's morally bankrupt. No society should be using this approach.
Morally bankrupt hits the nail on the head
Identity was used to determine who is morally "right" and who is valuable as a human being. Not sure I said it right. The most oppressed, it seems, can do no wrong. This is where it leads.
I'm just so sorry for all the lost lives and suffering.
Yes and to be clear: only those with the approved identities can be considered "oppressed". It's not oppression to be the victim of such a person, if one's identity isn't approved of. Only the subset of approved identities get to have their oppression ranked.
I've seen this in academia, where the rules preventing oppression of students by other students or by professors just aren't enforced for students of certain identities. The same language, even when absolutely justified ("I feel unsafe", "this was a violation") is even laughed at, when it's not coming from someone with the approved identity. At least that's the case when it's an approved identity committing the oppression.
It's everywhere, is what I mean to say. This horrific example of what happened to the Petit family is at the pinnacle of a wide and tall heap of bones.
Well that's a threat the Trans Lobby is yet to make....Would you rather have a Murdering Son or just a Rapey Daughter?
Trans ideology is the end game for patriarchy. The misogyny is off the charts, but more importantly the psychopathy of patriarchy and its hatred for women and children and men who defend them is plain to see. Whatever happened to the male human at some point in our evolution created a monster - a man who demands to be seen as a woman even as he becomes our most terrifying predator. This is driving all of humanity insane. The fact that some men are standing up against this ideology may seem like it will turn this around, but what I see happening is patriarchy retrenching and creating such a threat that women will think they have no choice but to regress back into servitude. Women will not back down. This truly is an epic battle between male humans and female humans. It will be patriarchy and its dominate and control mindset that will have created this war.
Fortunately, the courage of women and especially mothers in the face of this psychopathy is a fiercer quality to reckon with. No matter how deep the envy and hatred men have for women, it can never, ever displace the love mothers have for their children. To their last breath women will defend the lives that they bring into this world, because that is what they must do. Mother Nature will, of course, have her way with those men who perpetrate this nightmare.
I agree with you. But I am interested to know your take on why so many women, and mothers in particular, not only support this nonsense, but are also aggressive to us who oppose it.
Some it’s fear and others just virtue signal without thinking. Or a Yests once wrote: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
Thank you for exposing this horrific story.
As another reader wrote, there are no words for the loss that you have suffered but gratitude for digging deep into this madness.
It’s something I don’t talk about often but reading this article hit me hard and all I could imagine was the family
Thank you again.
My daughter died when she was 16.
She died as a result of her physical disabilities ( brain damage at birth) and her medical fragility. So I know the despair, but her death was not caused by somebody else intentionally and I cannot imagine what you have gone through, so again, my compassion and gratitude to you.
Unfortunately, this is the road my former party (the Democratic Party) has gone down on crime generally and crime by the transgendered in particular. In addition they endorse the mutilation of children in the name of gender affirming health care. A separate but equally obscene crime. May they perish in hell for what they have done to the innocent.
And yet many still want to blame this last lost on those of us who are pointing out the insanity. 🤷♂️
I read your excellent post LeAnne and also the original article in Newsweek. It seems to me that there is a religiosity to this and as such is a dangerous precedent for retrospective justification of crimes. We have to be wary of making it acceptable for people to disown their actions by being 'born again' as someone else.
From the name change it seems he is trying to shift ethnicities too. What was once absurd is now mainstream and it occurs to me that in the future, following the current trajectory, people with want to expunge their criminal records on the grounds they are not the same person - it's seems crazy to suggest it, but it is only as unthinkable as altering birth certificates once was.
I did some checking of my own.
If he is 61 he was born in 1964 and he says he was diagnosed with 'gender dysphoria' at age 16. I checked and that diagnosis did not exist until DSM-5 in 2013. DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) contains the latest definitions of currently accepted diagnoses.
However, in 1980, the year he claims to have been diagnosed, DSM-3 had just introduced the diagnosis of 'gender identity disorder' that would eventually be superseded 33 years later in DSM-5.
In the first place, I find it difficult to believe that a 16 year old would immediately be given that diagnosis in 1980 and secondly, that it was never discussed with him. I don't claim to know for sure but it looks a lot like invention to me.
It doesn't seem to have spiked Newsweek's curiosity to ask how he found about about the diagnosis years after the fact; how he'd managed to forget he had a problem or what tests or examinations were made at the time. Presumably he was not diagnosed by being observed in the wild through binoculars.
Newsweek publish these claims with the flimsy caveat of not being able to verify he was diagnosed with anything at age 16. Hayes obviously knew that they couldn't validate/invalidate his statements because the truth would be information under the protection of HIPAA.
It's awful journalism that somehow reduces his heinous crimes, which included rape and murder of three females. The mother was strangled and the two young girls (11 and 17 years old) were tied to their beds and burnt alive in the house.
Newsweek did reach out to the father of the family, William Petit. He had survived the home invasion by Hayes and accomplice, despite being beaten with baseball bats and left for dead. They wanted to know if Petit had any comment on Hayes' transition. What despicable ***ts.
If this doesn't wake more people up to how corporate media has become a propaganda machine, I don't know what will. This was just absolutely disgusting on so many levels.
What a fucking disgrace of a so called magazine. It should be bankrupt. This is outrageous.
I know I won’t be going out of my way to spend any money on it.
Yes. Modern mainstream media can no longer be trusted, they've become mouthpieces for propaganda and are full of bias.
What in the actual fffffffffffff
I remember this case, I had no idea that the murderer is now pulling the gender stunt. Sadly I am not surprised that Newsweek would run a story like this the mainstream media have been pushing a lot of stuff for way too long, and people are getting really tired of it. I feel so bad for the families of the victims who have to deal with this all over again now.