It’s significant that in yesterday’s N.Y. Times report (8.27) about the background of Minnesota Catholic school shooter Robin Westman, reporters Talya Minsberg, Amy Harmon and Aric Toler didn’t mention “her” gender identity issues until pararaph #8, and therefore obscuring or even half-burying a noteworthy aspect of this horrific event.
They also didn’t use the term “trans” or “transgender.”
No one’s making any assumptions or pointing fingers or implying any linkage, of course, but the Times story seemingly sought to downplay the Robin/Robert thing as much as they could within the bounds of journalistic propriety.
