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‘Trans violence epidemic’: Suspect who tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh come out as transgender

September 20, 2025 | | Print Article

Years after leftist protesters marched on the homes of Supreme Court justices, a new court filing in the case of the man who attempted to assassinate one now refers to him as female.

Rather than seeking to remedy mental disorders such as gender dysphoria, rainbow activists and their allies have long pushed to affirm the chosen identity of the suffering. Now, as a number of high-profile ideology-driven murders were alleged to have been committed by “trans” individuals, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a Friday filing described Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin as a “transgender woman.”

According to the documents first obtained by The Daily Wire, Federal Public Defender James Wyda for the District of Maryland referred to Nicholas Roske as “Sophie Roske” and “Ms. Roske.”

“The man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as a transgender woman and was deeply mentally ill and suicidal,” detailed the Wire’s White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.

Further details in the report indicated that, as the DOJ is seeking a sentence of 30 years in prison for Roske after he pled guilty to the attempted 2022 assassination of Kavanaugh in April 2025, Roske’s attorney’s had stated in a footnote, “The case is captioned as United States v. Nicholas John Roske. That name remains Ms. Roske’s legal name, and she has not asked to recaption the case. Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel’s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns.”

The report explained that the would-be assassin had used female identities online before the 2022 attempt on Kavanaugh’s life according to a source familiar with the legal proceedings and, by Roske’s own statements, he had planned to “kill ‘at least one,'” but was “‘shooting for 3’ justices of the Supreme Court,” in what was described as an attempt to “single-handedly and irrevocably … alter an entire branch of the United States government through violence.”

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Relating the new information about the case to the broader reality that the attempt to assassinate one or more Supreme Court justices was just the latest addition to a growing number of attempted and, tragically, actual murders, Olohan wrote, “The revelation that Roske has been using a female name and pronouns is significant, given the rise in transgender violence across the United States. A gunman living with his transgender boyfriend is accused of murdering Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last week. Kirk’s murder came only a few weeks after a 23-year-old trans-identifying gunman named Robin Westman opened fire on Catholic school children while they were praying in Minneapolis.”

The prevalence of these cases had prompted the Oversight Project to encourage the FBI to “use the full toolkit of the FBI to prevent further attacks inspired by this ideology,” by designating “Transgender Ideology Violent Extremism” as a domestic extremism threat category. Others remarked on the need to address the situation that had grown “worse than we thought.”

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