Let's Discuss Trans Violence

It's a false narrative largely, but somehow the media likes to spin it up to enrage people. What happened in Colorado in 2019, exactly?

This is typically referred to as the “STEM School Shooting,” or the “STEM Highlands Shooting.” It was in Colorado. It is generally not well-remembered for three or four different reasons, including happening in 2019 (pre-COVID), only one fatality, and because it involved a minor at the time, some details didn’t come out in full until later.

The basic story is that Alec McKinney, who was born Maya McKinney, was 16 years old and basically seemed to hate the STEM school they were attending. The home life situation also seemed bad. Apparently Alec/Maya lived with 14 other peers (siblings, cousins) and the dad had been deported to Mexico a few years prior. A single mom was basically managing a household of 14 pre-teens and teenagers, best I can tell. That’s a recipe for a mess.

Alec began transitioning and at some point, he became friends with a kid named Devon Erickson. It does not appear Devon was homosexual, and in fact many reports paint him as a ladies man. There are all sorts of rumors in the Internet ether that Alec (bio female) was hooking up with Devon (bio male), even though Alec identified as a male. Anyway, their relationship — be it intimate or just friends — got intense and there’s a lot of very random Snapchats involved. It seems like both were completely broken teenagers (Devon was slightly older), and Alec seemed to convince Devon to join him (her?) on a mass shooting effort. Ultimately it was a “school shooting” but not really a “mass shooting” as only one person died. That’s still obviously awful, but in vaguely positive news, the STEM lab at the school is now named for that kid.

If you want to try and follow the confusing relationships here and see some Snapchats that will make you cringe, here is a video with all of it: