https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/8/07/report-sibling-killed-dayton-shooting-was-trans-man-jordan-cofer
Report: Sibling Killed in Dayton Shooting Was Trans Man Jordan Cofer
Not sure if this any bearing on the shooter or not. Just new information I heard this morning.
Terrible reporting.
Splinter writer Katelyn Burns concluded that Cofer was likely not targeted for his gender identity because he was not out to many, including his family. But Cofer, 22, used male pronouns and identified as trans, according to friends of his who spoke to Burns.
Does this mean that she/he had, or had not, "come out" to her/his family?
Leading to:
Gillian Branstetter, media relations manager for the National Center for Transgender Equality, said it was important for journalists and police to speak to murder victims' friends and family members so the deceased are identified properly and not misgendered or dead-named.
And if the deceased had not "come out" to his/her/its family and the family provide the journalist(s) with the deceased's birth name and gender ... then what? At the church my late wife and I attended, there was a rather large person who attended church as a woman. I was informed by someone who had been in the church longer than we had that this person was a male, and Monday through Friday went to work as a male, wearing male clothing and answering to a male name. When that person dies, how should he/she be identified? If the male name is used, professional colleagues will recognize him but many members of the church may not. If the female name is used, members of the church will recognize "her" but colleagues will not.