❓WHAT HAPPENED: Pro-transgenderism activists gathered outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis to demonstrate against a visit by Vice President J.D. Vance after a shooting that left two children dead and 17 others injured. The shooter, a transgender, targeted the church during a back-to-school Mass.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, formerly Robert, along with victims, church attendees, and Vice President Vance, who visited the site to meet with families.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The shooting occurred at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis during a back-to-school Mass. Demonstrations followed in the days after the tragedy.
🎯IMPACT: The incident has reignited debates on gun violence, mental health, and the role of transgender ideology in mass shootings.
Pro-transgenderism protestors gathered outside the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, demonstrating against a visit by Vice President J.D. Vance following a mass shooting that claimed the lives of two children and left 17 others injured. The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, formerly Robert, fired through the church’s stained-glass windows during a back-to-school Mass.
Westman, who was a transgender, had a documented history of mental health struggles and fascination with mass killings. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.
Pro-trans activists gathered outside the church on Wednesday as Vance and his wife, Usha, arrived to meet with victims’ families. The group’s actions, which included displaying a transgender flag near the site of the attack, were widely criticized as provocative and insensitive.
Imagine protesting outside a church kids were murdered at because you want to defend the killer’s trans ideology.
Sick. Just sick. pic.twitter.com/MoZldJbHjM
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 3, 2025
On Thursday, The National Pulse reported that the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering imposing restrictions that would prevent those undergoing gender transition or diagnosed with gender dysphoria from purchasing firearms. Additionally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the attack as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) has called for avoiding the “villainization” of the transgender community.
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