Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, defended his administration’s actions in a sensitive case during a press conference on Friday, as reported by the Daily Wire. In response to questions about the alleged concealment of a transgender teenager’s identity, who was arrested for planning school shootings, Elrich firmly addressed a reporter.
The tension rose as the reporter pressed Elrich on the county’s reluctance to reveal the suspect’s transgender status, referencing similar recent cases. This incident marked the fourth time such a situation had occurred, according to the Daily Wire.
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich SNAPS when a journalist asks why they’re covering up the fact that Andrea Ye was transgender.
Andrea Ye is trans teenager (female) who planned to attack 2 Montgomery County schools. pic.twitter.com/HkRnVPofkp
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“Because it’s not a lede,” Elrich responded, Daily Wire reported. “You know, how — do you publicize every time somebody gets murdered that it’s a white Christian male, who’s heterosexual? No, you don’t, you don’t — are these the only crimes that get committed? You never publish somebody’s sexual orientation when you talk about them.”
Elrich further added: “Why are you focused on it being a transgender is beyond me. It is not a news story. It is not a crime to be transgender. And I’m sorry you feel that way,” he added.
The 18-year-old individual, who identifies as male, was apprehended by law enforcement with the help of the FBI. Officials found a 129-page document detailing plans to carry out an assault on an elementary school and other locations, as reported by the Daily Wire.
Being a white heterosexual Christian male is NOT a mental disorder; being in denial of one’s anatomy and physiology IS, and is frequently accompanied by other such disorders, ergo apples and potatoes, not even in the same class, sir, and that makes it pertinent information! Now if a white heterosexual Christian male develops paranoid schizophrenia, and goes on a spree of killing, THAT would also be pertinent, because paranoid schizophrenia is also a mental disorder. Hiding this, and pretending it’s”normal”, is helping NO ONE; these are seriously mentally ill persons in need of mental health care, not enabling and. coddling!