(LifeSiteNews) — In one of the strangest crime stories of the year, a 40-year-old New York Times tech executive was gunned down by her in-laws in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Ground in Dublin, California, on September 26. The entire mainstream media, however, reported the story of a husband with “a checkered past of domestic and child abuse” being allegedly murdered by his wife’s parents.
Jonathan McKinsey, who appears in press photos as a bearded male, was known as Dawn S. Finney until 2010, when she undertook a “gender transition” around the age of 24. The timeline is unclear and confusing, but McKinsey appears to have already been in a relationship with Candice Jang at the time, as she later accused Jang of attempting to pull out medical chest tubes related to the surgery. McKinsey also alleged that her future father-in-law “punched him in the chest” during recovery.
To sum up: Two women were in a lesbian relationship, going so far as to get “married”; Dawn Finney underwent “sex change” surgeries and began identifying as Jonathan McKinsey; both women leveled serious abuse allegations at each other over the years, including McKinsey claiming that Jang’s mother used “transphobic” language to both McKinsey and one of the children.
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According to court documents, one of the three children being raised by the two women wore his sister’s dresses and the in-laws blamed McKinsey for “influencing” the boy to do so. McKinsey claimed “anti-LGBTQ” verbal abuse from them. Jang, however, had accused McKinsey of slapping their 6-year-old son so hard across the face that she left a bruise, and she was charged with misdemeanor cruelty and corporal injury to a child, but was shot by Jang’s parents before she could appear in court on October 2.
“McKinsey and [her] wife filed for restraining orders against each other, both listing several alleged instances of abuse to their three children and to each other,” ABC reported.
McKinsey had also filed for divorce. This increasingly vicious conflict came to a brutal end when Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, Jang’s 76-year-old parents, came up to McKinsey in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Ground wearing masks and took turns firing into her body before being arrested by a passing police officer. They are charged with first degree murder and a string of other charges, including felony conspiracy.
Aside from the bizarre details, what is remarkable about this story is how confusingly it was reported. At first, it appeared that a husband had been murdered by his wife’s parents; then, that a former lesbian, now identifying as a man, had been in a same-sex “marriage” and killed by her in-laws. It is similar to the media frenzy surrounding the case of death row inmate Christa Pike, in which she was frequently identified as the first woman to be executed since the 2023 execution of Amber McLaughlin. McLaughlin, however, was a man, committed his crimes as a man, and only began identifying as a woman well after his conviction.
The media has a simple job: to inform the public of the who, what, where, when, and if possible, why of a story. Gender ideology has changed that. Now, when a story is reported, extra research is necessary to ascertain basic facts such as the sex of a perpetrator or victim. It reminded me of the most prescient lines of the Trump executive order on January 20, 2025:
The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.
That is precisely right – and the validity of the entire press corps is at stake, as well.
