US — Maryland. The male individual accused of traveling from his California home to the suburbs of Washington, DC with the intent of murdering Justice Brett Kavanaugh “identifies as a woman,” court documents show. Nicholas John Roske used the pseudonym ‘Sophie’ on Reddit forums, where he described himself as “a 24 year old MtF [male-to-female] college graduate looking for a woman to cuddle and watch movies with… If this turns into making out, etc that’s cool.” On Discord, the usernames of Mr Roske’s two accounts were Sophie42#6535 and AmericanSophie#1595.
According to court documents, Mr Roske told a detective that he sought to “give his life a purpose” by stopping the Supreme Court from overturning Roe v Wade, a landmark 1973 decision which found that the nation’s Constitution conferred the right to an abortion. Roe v Wade has since been overturned.