Wed Aug 16, 2023 – 1:37 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Amid its bloody conflict with Russia, Ukraine has triggered mockery for its decision to hire a gender-confused American reporter as an English-speaking military spokesperson for the embattled country.
Michael “Sarah” Ashton-Cirillo, 46, a leftist activist born in Florida, became a spokesman for the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine earlier this month, according to the Kyiv Post.
He has already sparked outrage for a short video posted to social media in which he said that one of the primary differences between Ukrainians and Russians is that “we’re human and those guys most definitely aren’t.”
🇺🇦🇺🇸Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, transgender woman, from the United States has become one of the speakers for the Defense Forces.
Sarah serves as a junior sergeant and combat medic in the Ukrainian Ground Forces. pic.twitter.com/5Si6pN4U54
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) August 3, 2023
The gender-confused man, who began taking cross-sex hormones in 2018 and later underwent mutilating transgender surgery, was previously married to a woman and has a son. He made headlines in 2021 for pretending to be a Trump supporter in order to report on alleged “extremism” among conservatives.
In 2022, he traveled to Ukraine
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