“Trans” Man Says He Killed “Narcissistic” Parents for Interfering With Sex Change

A Utah man who believes he’s female told police he killed his parents after they interfered with his plans to get “gender reassignment” surgery because they — not the person who shot them because he didn’t get his way — were “narcissistic.”

“I don’t regret it. I hate them,” Collin “Mia” Bailey said in recently released video of his police interrogation, segments of which were posted on X.

Bailey, 30, pleaded guilty last year to the 2024 double murder of his parents, Joseph, 70, and Gail, 69. He is serving two consecutive sentences of 25 years to life.

Parental Guidance Detested

After years of identifying as female and undergoing hormone-replacement therapy and other “gender-affirming” treatments short of surgery, Bailey legally changed his gender and name in 2023.

His parents disagreed with his gender decisions. According to KUTV, Bailey alleged that his family had been “abusive” toward him and had ignored his many threats to take his own life.

“Mental health declining, that’s why I needed that surgery,” he told police.

Of course, it is equally possible that Bailey’s poor mental health led him to believe that altering his body to conform to his gender dysphoria — rather than correcting his mental state to conform to reality — was the panacea to his problems. And who can blame him? At the time, the mainstream media, Hollywood, social media, schools, and many public officials were unstinting in their support for “gender-affirming care” and their disdain for anyone who dissented. People who opposed such treatment, especially for minors, were the ones who needed their heads examined, held the opinion-makers. This remained the creed of all “right-thinking” persons even as violent crimes by transgender perpetrators became ever more commonplace.

Bailey was set to have his gender-reassignment surgery when, he claimed, his mother interfered by calling the hospital where it was scheduled to occur. Whether this was simply to voice her objections or to refuse to pay for the surgery — Bailey told cops that, at the time of the murders, he was homeless and $20,000 in debt because of his previous treatments — it was, Bailey said, “the last straw.”

“She was trying to sabotage it. She always had boundary issues,” Bailey said. “I had one thing going on, and she took that away from me…. She can’t say sorry to save her life, apparently. And I gave her so many chances throughout my life.”

Family Feud

Bailey said he bought a gun from local pawn shop, then “went to my parents’ to do the deed: kill them.”

Neighbors apparently saw it coming. One of them told KSL-TV at the time of the murders, “There was already volatility and bad vibes going within the family.”

So did some family members. According to court documents, “Multiple family members told law enforcement that they were afraid of [Bailey]. These family members all sought alternative lodging for the night to ensure their safety.”

At least two family members stuck it out — and nearly paid the same price for doing so as Bailey’s parents. His brother and sister-in-law were at the house when Bailey shot his parents. They escaped to a neighbor’s house to call 911, but not before Bailey shot at them through a locked door. He told police later that, while he didn’t think the bullet would hit his brother, “if it did, then so what?” After all, he hated his brother as much as his parents.

“So much for family,” Bailey said. “I spent years trying to fix that broken-a– family. Eventually, I had to get out, either going to kill myself or kill [them].”

Bailey evaded police for 13 hours, even holding a gun to his own head at one point to get them to back off and let him flee, something he bragged and laughed about during his interrogation.

At the same time, he said, he chose not to kill anyone else he came across during his flight, thinking, “Enough dead people for the day, or for life, I should say.”

Projection and Deflection

Asked if he would “change the outcome” of the day of the murders, Bailey said it would have “played out completely differently” if his parents had “changed their minds.” But, he said, “I know they’re not [going to change] ’cause they’re so narcissistic.”

“Their answer was on them,” he added. “They had their chance.”

“I didn’t want to become the monster that they made me to be. I really wanted to be good. I really did. But … that was a last resort, the last straw.”

“Bailey,” wrote KUTV, “ended [his] confession by saying there needs to be more support for the LGBTQ community and that people should be able to transition with less interference.”

But what if Bailey’s wish list, which already exists in abundance, is the cause of, not the solution to, the problem? By affirming people’s gender confusion and forcing the rest of the world to conform to it, might it not turn the already mentally unstable into severe narcissists who will stop at nothing to realize their delusions — even to the extent of murdering those who stand in their way and projecting their own failings onto their victims?