Several decades ago, a very prominent liberal in Illinois once told me that “there are facts and there are principles. I believe in principles. If the facts contradict the principles, then the facts must be ignored.” This seems to be the thinking of large swaths of our current population. Forget the facts. All that is important is what we believe.

For the left, gender ideology seems to be one of those beliefs that exists far beyond the facts. The basic principle is that everyone has a sex and a gender. Biology determines your sex. Gender identity is determined by something inside, something known only to the person.

Today, there are more than 200 colleges in the U.S. that promote this gender ideology by offering degrees in gender studies as a major or a minor, despite there being no evidence that such a thing as gender even exists. The entire structure of gender ideology is based on a theory spawned by the deranged mind of John Money, whose research has been discredited by his own disastrous experiments. His seminal experiment was a catastrophic failure. And that failure, that fact, has been ignored . . . because it must be since the failure contradicts the principle.

The idea of gender has become so entrenched in our culture it’s difficult to see a path to escape from it. Yet it was created out of thin air and has metastasized throughout all our institutions within the last half century. Even major Christian denominations have become corrupted by gender ideology.

We have become so desensitized to gender, it seems that most of us have become resigned to it and have lost any sense of the danger the ideology poses. Take the transgender issue.

Transgender clinics for children have sprung up, seemingly overnight, throughout the country. After all, children know best who and what they are. Performances by drag queens at libraries, schools, restaurants and other public venues have become commonplace. All in good fun.

The dark side of the issue is being ignored by most. Little attention is paid to the mental illnesses that underlie the transgender phenomenon, or to the genuine danger that many transgenders pose toward others because of their mental illnesses, their narcissism, their twisted thinking.

This dark side cannot be ignored for long.

Recently Kelsey Boren, 31, a former teacher’s aide in Oregon, was convicted of 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse. Boren is a man who claims he’s a woman. And he is a drag queen, whose stage name is Alwaiz Craving. What he’s always craving seems evident by what he was convicted for, and by the fact that he was mentoring an 11 year old boy to become a drag queen. Boren had arranged for the boy to perform at a local pub named after Satan. As far as I can tell the child’s parents have not been prosecuted. Shockingly, Boren received less than one year in county jail for his conviction on 11 felony charges.

If this case doesn’t reveal the dark side of transgenderism clearly enough for you, several years ago I investigated the case of a four-year-old boy living in New York who had suffered abuse and torture at the hands of a transgender woman (a man) so severe that the child died.

Because of my past profession, I am accustomed to seeing the worst humanity has to offer, including countless cases of severe abuse that have led to the death of a child.  Four decades ago, I investigated more than 200 such cases during the course of my first investigation into the child welfare system.  But I’ve never seen one quite like the torture murder of Myls Dobson.

Myls’ killer was the new “girlfriend” of the child’s father. Born Christopher King, “she” was known as Janaie Jones and reportedly used the stage name of Kryzie King.  “She” had a $3,200 per month apartment at the Ritz Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and was a “transgender performer.”

Jones/King supposedly had a juvenile record but nothing as an adult. During an interview by the police, Jones/King admitted to starving the boy for more than two weeks, beating him with the buckle end of a belt all over his body, burning him with cigarettes and making him stand outside in his underwear for more than an hour when the temperature was 9 degrees.  “She” eventually called paramedics when the boy became unresponsive and they found him unconscious in a bathtub with extensive burns and bruises all over his body, including his genitals.

This is evil in its most sadistic manifestation.  You don’t get there overnight.  You don’t go from crime free to this kind of behavior unless you’ve already traveled many miles down the path of depravity. Additionally, Jones/King is a man.  He is not a she, no matter how much the gender cult wants it to be so.  This is a sick, twisted, evil man.

He is also transgendered.  That does not mean that all transgendered men are sick, twisted murderers. But this guy is among the worst.

The American Psychological Association says:

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics.

Until recently, transgendered people were considered to have a mental disorder, specifically “gender identity disorder.”  But with the publication of the DSM-5, the term has been changed to “gender dysphoria” to de-emphasize that it is a “disorder.”

From the descriptions I’ve read about the injuries Myls suffered, I have to conclude that this is a case of child sexual sadism.  Not having access to all the investigation reports, I can’t be certain. But it sure looks like it. In any event, what Jones/King did to the boy proves that he was, indeed, disordered, to say the least.

I won’t go into all the other chaos of this little boy’s life, you can read a few of the articles here, here, here, and here.   The whole story of his short time on this earth is sad beyond comprehension and should be viewed as an indictment of the pathetic paper shuffling, buck passing system we’ve set up to make it seem we care about protecting children.

If we are ever going to get a clear picture of what’s going wrong (and right, for that matter), let’s first stop with all the woke lingo and start reporting the facts.  Maybe then, when we can see how “disordered” our world is becoming, we might be able to do something about it.

The torture murder of Myls Dobson by a transgendered child sexual sadist is outrageous.  But it is also outrageous to downplay the contribution played by the murderer’s lifestyle and HIS self-styled sexual orientation.

Christopher King and Kelsey Boren are not representative of the transgender community as a whole. But there are many like them within that community and there are many more who pose a less aggressive threat. More importantly, these cases are cautionary tales. They are a reminder that transgenderism involves a deranged view of reality that presents an imminent danger to children. That fact cannot be ignored if you care about protecting children.