Mick Hartley

From Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx:

A trans-identified male musician in California is currently touring and performing songs calling for the murder of women critical of gender identity ideology. Precious Child, who previously involved himself in the Wi Spa controversy, utilizes graphic sexual and violent threats against “TERFs” in his music.

During his most recent performance at the Knockout Bar in San Francisco, Precious Child performed his song “TERF Killer,” riling the audience into chanting “kill a TERF today.”

Lovely:

In a video of the performance shared to his YouTube account, Precious Child can be seen chanting “kill a TERF today” while the accompanying music video is shown on a screen behind him. The video features images of bullets and of a knife stabbing into the air as the words “kill a TERF today” flash repeatedly across the screen.

Precious Child has a history of repeatedly threatening critics of gender ideology, with a particular focus reserved for females who oppose gender self-identification law….

Precious has also made repeated threats against world-renowned author JK Rowling.

Last July, upon releasing the music video for “TERF Killer,” Precious named JK Rowling in the description, writing: “This song and video is dedicated to every single filthy TERF and MRA in existence. Special shout out to JK Rowling! All billionaires are trash but you’re special.”

Earlier this year, Precious Child shared photos of himself brandishing a knife to a paper-mache effigy of JK Rowling’s head. The image, intended to convey decapitation, was made to promote his album “AR-15s for Transgender Teens.”

The Wi Spa controversy? That was the affair back in 2021 when a customer posted a viral video to social media from inside the LA spa, in which she told a front desk employee that a man had exposed his penis in a female-only steam room to women and girls, only to be told that there was nothing staff could do, in line with Californian law because the man claimed to be transgender. This was picked up by the Guardian, and by Queer Theory guru Judith Butler, as a far-right hoax aiming to discredit poor suffering trans folk – only for it to be revealed later that the man was in fact a serial sex offender. As Genevieve Gluck notes, Precious Child here – our violent trans protagonist – was featured sympathetically in the Guardian's original report as a trans activist hero and victim of far-right transphobic hate.

As we see though, the violence and hate is always and only the other way.