Riley Gaines had literal human feces thrown at her at the University of Washington.
That was last year, same campus, same Antifa crowd.
What they did to Chloe Cole this week is worse.
What Happened at the University of Washington This Week
Cole is the detransitioner who went through the process of transitioning from female to male between the ages of 12 and 16 – and now travels the country warning other families about what the medical system did to her.
She was scheduled to speak Wednesday at UW as part of TPUSA's "Pick Up the Mic" initiative.
She never made it to the podium.
Local Antifa groups had been organizing large-scale protests for days.
https://twitter.com/ChloeCole/status/2054365092054286605?s=20
Then threats started appearing publicly online – people posting that they hoped Cole would get "Kirked."
That's the word they're using now.
"Kirked" – as in what happened to Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead at a campus event in Utah last September.
They were wishing assassination on a young woman whose only crime was talking about her own medical history.
Cole pulled the event before anyone got hurt.
Then a 19-year-old transgender University of Washington student was stabbed to death in an off-campus housing facility on Sunday – a horrific crime with no identified suspect and no established motive.
And the left immediately used that murder to come after Cole.
They Blamed Her for a Killing She Had Nothing to Do With
Cole told Fox News Digital what happened next.
"I've seen more people connect me to this murder that I did not do than people calling for an investigation, to find the perpetrator, to find the monster who did this."
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2055012272011890902?s=20
Students messaged her telling her to cancel out of "respect."
Others told her that whatever violence would have happened at her event, she would have deserved it.
"I don't want anybody to die," Cole said. "I don't want the violence to continue. And I can't believe that, in the wake of such a horrific crime, people can even think about continuing that violence."
That is what passes for compassion on the modern American university campus.
The University of Washington confirmed to Fox News that "no suspect has been identified and no motive for this crime has been established."
Nobody knows why that student was killed.
But the campus left had already assigned blame – to a detransitioner who wasn't there.
The Campus Left Now Has a Word for Wishing Conservatives Dead
This is the third major TPUSA confrontation at the University of Washington in recent memory.
Riley Gaines was physically assaulted and had feces thrown at her during a TPUSA event there.
https://twitter.com/ConstitustionX/status/2055029998202007809?s=20
Erika Kirk had to cancel a college campus appearance entirely in April after security determined threats were too serious – people were doxxing her travel itinerary, tracking her arrival and departure.
Now Chloe Cole.
Same campus.
Same playbook.
Threaten first.
Blame the speaker for the consequences if anything goes wrong.
Use the nearest tragedy as ammunition, regardless of whether there is any actual connection.
The TPUSA chapter president at UW, Katelyn Seratt, said the threats were "deliberately designed to falsely associate our peaceful event with the murder."
Cole said the same thing in a different way.
"I'm not afraid of these people," she told Fox News Digital. "For as long as I feel called to do this – I will continue speaking on campus."
What This Pattern Actually Means
Charlie Kirk was shot because a political culture decided that certain speakers deserved whatever happened to them.
The word "Kirked" exists now.
People use it openly online when they want a conservative speaker to be assassinated.
And not one major media outlet is treating this as the emergency it is.
https://twitter.com/MichaelARothman/status/2055166998494265673?s=20
Imagine a conservative posting publicly that they hoped a progressive speaker would be shot before a campus event.
The FBI would be involved before sundown.
When Antifa does it to Chloe Cole, it barely makes the news.
She went through gender transition procedures as a minor.
She is now trying to make sure the same thing doesn't happen to other kids.
For that, she receives death threats, assassination wishes, and blame for murders committed by people she has never met.
The campus left has built a climate where violence against conservative speakers is not just tolerated – it is celebrated, rewarded with viral posts, and defended as resistance.
That is not protest.
That is a protection racket.
And until someone in a position of authority decides to treat it that way, it will keep happening.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Heckman and Rachel del Guidice, "First on Fox: Chloe Cole vows to return to UW after canceling appearance over alleged Antifa threats," Fox News Digital, May 14, 2026.
- "Riley Gaines Says 'Literal Human Feces' Thrown in Protest of Turning Point USA at University of Washington," Fox News Digital, 2025.
