Transgender cult leader Jack LaSota’s lawyer scolded the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday for using his “deadname” and “male pronouns” in his grand jury indictment.
Attorney Gary Proctor raised the issue in a court motion demanding a speedy trial after the DOJ charged LaSota in Maryland with possessing firearms and ammunition as a fugitive from justice.
LaSota, referred to as “Ziz” in court records, was leading a cult prior to his Feb. 16. arrest called the “Zizians” whose followers are charged with murders and other crimes.
“In the indictment the Government uses Defendant’s ‘deadname’ of Jack LaSota,” Proctor wrote — attaching a link to a USA Today article titled, “‘A Matter of Physical Safety’: What It Means to Deadname Someone and the Impact it Makes.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland declined to comment to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
LaSota and two co-defendants were arrested for squatting on a resident’s property inside two white box trucks filled with weapons, according to court records. The homeowner who called the police said they asked him if they could camp there for a month.
The activist was previously arrested at a Pennsylvania hotel in 2023 for allegedly obstructing police from investigating another Zizian in the murder of her parents, The Associated Press reported. LaSota’s Pennsylvania case is “inactive” while his Maryland one proceeds, court records show.
The other Zizian, Michelle Zajko, was not charged with the murders and claimed in March that LaSota was “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” according to The Associated Press.
“The Government also doubles down on offensively labeling Ms. LaSota by using male pronouns such as ‘he was a fugitive from justice,’” Proctor complained. “It is well known, and widely reported, that Ms. LaSota is transgender.”
The Zizians’ ideological goals, if any, are unclear. LaSota once wrote a blog discussing “punching Nazis,” veganism and being transgender, among other topics, the DCNF previously reported.
LaSota, Zajko and the third Maryland defendant, Daniel Blank, are being held without bond over the February box trucks incident.
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