Trans man Alex Taylor Franco found murdered in Utah Desert

The body of transgender 21 year old Alex "Boo" Taylor Franco, 21, was found March 18, in Lehi, Utah with a single gunshot wound.

Alex, born Dec. 16, 2002, had just earned a scholarship to attend college and was loved by friends and family making his death especially tragic.

Three teens have been arrested.

Fox News Utah reports that two teens were originally arrested and on the 21st a third suspect was arrested.

The third teenager involved in the case, who was only identified as a 17-year-old boy, was taken into custody early Thursday morning, Taylorsville Police reported.

On Wednesday, the two other involved teens, ages 17 and 15 years old, appeared in court for a detention hearing.

During the hearing, it was revealed by the judge that the teens met up with Franco to sell him a gun.

Taylorsville Police said in an updated release Thursday that the teens intended to rob Franco of the money he planned to use to buy the gun.

When Franco got inside their vehicle, a white Jeep Liberty, an argument began and eventually led to Franco being killed by a single gunshot, court information reported.

A statement from law enforcement said the 15-year-old later told his girlfriend he shot and killed Franco with a 9 mm handgun. Additionally, the 17-year-old arrested Tuesday admitted he was the driver of the vehicle while Franco was being held against his will.

Taylorsville Police said there is no evidence of the case involving any hate crime or being gang or drug-related, according to Fox 13.

All three are in custody charged with various felonies in connection with the murder.

The transgender-led project TDOR Remembering Our Dead reports that 27 people have died of violence in the US from October 2023 through February 2024. We mourn our dead every November during TDOR ceremonies held across the world.

The family has asked that in lieu of flowers donations are being accepted to help with funeral costs.

Rest in peace Alex "Boo" Taylor Franco December 16, 2002 - March 17, 2024.

The Republican's unrelenting war on transgender youth is taking a toll

A mother with her trans daughter at the Arkansas State House protest
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To justify laws targeting trans children, GOP legislators have recently looked to a conservative-led country, England, and its failed system of socialized healthcare. They routinely mischaracterize the NHS decision not to give hormone blockers to youth under 16 as a total country-wide ban.

They fail to note that the NHS is a bungling bureaucratic behemoth that takes years, even a decade to begin the process of determining if a person is even eligible to receive hormone blockers. Anyone in the UK who can afford it has long ago gone to the private sector for their Transgender healthcare.

GOP legislators also don't mention that every creditable medical and physiological association in the US and Europe fully supports gender medical transition regardless of age. In fact, the American Psychological Association (APA) just overwhelmingly passed a policy in February 2024 to that effect.

The AP reports that "legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision in England to restrict gender transitions for young people as support for their own related proposals."

"They weren’t the first to turn to other countries, notably in Europe, for policy and research ideas. Lawmakers across the U.S., where at least 23 states now have tightened or removed access to transgender health care for minors, have routinely cited non-U.S. research or policies as justification for their legislation."

And that these red states lawmakers are continuing to target trans youth despite leading health organizations in the United States and Europe decisively endorsing gender-affirming care for both transgender youths and adults.

The end game: Total eradication of transgender people, nothing less than gendercide.

Republicans know that if they can keep trans youth from medically transitioning they will be easy targets for their politically motivated discriminatory legislation such as athletic and public accommodation and adult healthcare bans. They often cite the physiological differences that they create by denying youth hormone blockers as the reason for the discriminatory laws that they endorse.

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It's all in the plan to eradicate transgender and gender-expansive people as advocated for by The Heritage Foundations Project 2025.

These legislators couldn't care less about transgender children. And their hate isn't justified biblically. It's all in the Bible. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit have called us by name and shown us that we are loved.

 It's all political. The Republican party is now what Southern Democrats used to be. The party of hate.

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