An American transgender BMX cyclist shared a series of social media posts celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of Donald Trump, was shot and killed, while hosting a Q&A event with students at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The president announced Friday that a suspect is in custody.
The 31-year-old had been debating the issue of mass shootings involving transgender people with a student in the moment before he was shot dead, sending shockwaves across the globe.
Despite many sporting figures condemning the murder, Chelsea Wolfe, who featured as an alternate on the USA’s women’s BMX team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, openly welcomed the assassination.
Wolfe, who is a biological male, littered her Instagram story with celebratory posts in the wake of Kirk’s death.
One of the posts, which has since expired, featured a report from USA Today on the horrific murder, with an animated caption of children’s cartoon character ‘Dora the Explorer,’ according to Fox News. Above it read: ‘We did it!.’
American transgender BMX cyclist Chelsea Wolfe celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder this week
Kirk, a conservative activist, was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Wednesday
In another, Wolfe shared a selfie of herself giving a thumbs up with a caption that read: ‘Being a Nazi is completely optional btw. He didn’t have to do all that, but he did and now he’s dead. Don’t live your life in a way that the world is better following your death.’
Wolfe likened Kirk to a Nazi yet again in a separate story, adding: ‘We hate Nazis because they want us dead.’
Among the slew of posts cheering Kirk’s death, Wolfe reshared a message that read: ‘He wasn’t just a “conservative we disagreed with.” He was a fascist organizer who built his career spreading racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant hate, actively harming marginalized communities every single day.
‘If you feel compelled to send his family condolences, fine, that’s your personal choice. But don’t turn around and scold others for refusing to shed tears over a man who dedicated his life to dehumanizing and endangering them. This doesn’t make you a “better person,” and if you’re a Christian, it doesn’t make you closer to going to heaven.’
As an alternate at the Tokyo games, Wolfe became the first openly transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympics for the United States.
She had already undergone gender transition when she began competing in BMX as an amatuer in 2014.
However, her BMX freestyle career was effectively ended in 2023 when the Union Cycliste Internationale – cycling’s international governing body – implemented new regulations banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s competition.
Wolfe previous said in a March 2020 Facebook post that the athlete hoped to ‘burn the American flag’ at the Tokyo Olympics.
Wolfe, who was a Team USA alternate at the Tokyo Olympics, shared a slew of posts to her Instagram post welcoming the assassination of the outspoken political activist
Kirk is pictured speaking to students in Utah moments before he was shot in the neck
‘My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium. This is what they focus on during a pandemic. Hurting trans children,’ Wolfe wrote at the time.
Her public celebration of Kirk’s death this week disgusted many social media users, including tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who slammed the ‘sickening’ posts.
Kirk’s murder has sent shockwaves across the globe after horrifying footage of it went viral online. Trump revealed early Friday morning that the person who assassinated Kirk is in custody.
‘I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody,’ the president told Fox & Friends.
Two suspects had been initially captured but were later released, sparking an FBI manhunt.
Kirk, a married father of two, was hit by a single bullet while speaking to a crowd at the public university in Orem. He collapsed immediately after and was rushed to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Kirk leaves behind his wife Erika Frantzve, with whom he had a three-year-old daughter and a son, 16 months. The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May.
Trump – who narrowly escaped death when he was shot in the ear at a campaign rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania, in July 2024 – broke the news of the MAGA influencer’s passing on Wednesday.
Wolfe, pictured with her partner in 2024, became the first openly transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympics for the United States back in 2021 at the Tokyo games
Kirk, a close ally of Trump, was fatally shot at a Q&A event at Utah Valley University this week
‘The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,’ the President wrote on his Truth Social platform.
‘No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us.
‘Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!’
It was reported on Thursday morning that the bullet used to kill conservative activist Kirk was engraved with transgender and anti-fascist ideology.
A law bulletin sent to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents said that bullets found inside the rifle, a .30-06 caliber hunting rifle, had the messaging on them.
The weapon was wrapped in a towel, with a spent cartridge in the chamber.
Another three unspent rounds were discovered in the magazine, all of which were inscribed. The wording was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
A Department of Justice source confirmed to the Daily Mail that the bulletin is authentic, while warning that the ‘recovered evidence from the site of the assassination is still being assessed and the investigation is ongoing’.
Kirk leaves behind his wife, Erika Frantzve, and a son, 16 months, and a daughter, three
On Thursday, the FBI released images of a person of interest in Kirk’s assassination
The ATF said they would not comment on the contents of the report due to it still being an active investigation.
Kirk was speaking to students at the time and had been addressing the issue of transgender individuals being involved in mass shootings just seconds before he was assassinated.
The FBI revealed on Thursday that they had recovered the firearm believed to have been used in Kirk’s killing.
Beau Mason, Utah’s public safety chief, said that investigators have ‘good video footage’ of the suspect.
He said the gunman managed to blend in with students on the college campus, having arrived shortly before noon.
After making the fatal shot, authorities say he jumped from the roof of the building, before fleeing the campus.
