A man, Andrew Balcer Taney, who claimed his motivation for slaughtering his family was their lack of support for his transgender identity has been quietly marked a “female” in the Maine prison system

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that A man who claimed his motivation for slaughtering his family was their lack of support for his transgender identity has been quietly marked a “female” in the Maine prison system.

Growing up in Winthorp, Maine, Andrew Balcer knew that he was different. He’d play sports

with his older brother Christopher and go hunting and fishing with his dad, but all the while he felt like he was pretending to be something he wasn’t. Andrew really wanted to be Andrea.

Andrew sat down with his parents, Antonio and Alice, and told them he believed he was a female trapped in the wrong body.

Later, Andrew claimed they didn’t take the news well and struggled to accept it. But people who knew the couple insist they would have been nothing but supportive.

Balcer went on to murder his father, Antonio, and their pet chihuahua, Lily. The only member of the family Balcer spared was his older brother, whom he allowed to flee after telling him “it’s not your day.”

Balcer during a court hearing. “I snapped. I took my little Ka-Bar [military combat knife] there and I drove it straight into my mother’s back,” Balcer said. “My father came up because he heard her screams and I stabbed the fuck out of him. Oh, I killed the dog, too. It was barking.”

During the years-long court proceedings, Balcer’s attorneys cited his family’s lack of support for his gender transition as a motive for the crime. But just days before he was scheduled to plead guilty, Balcer abruptly began accusing his mother and father of physical and sexual abuse. Disturbingly, Balcer claimed his mother had molested him when he was between the ages of 14 and 16.

The shocking allegations were vehemently denied by his older brother, who rejected the entire claim.

“No. No. No. No. No. That is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard in my life. The man never would have laid a hand on either of us,” Christopher Balcer said during an interview on the accusations.

At the sentencing hearing, Balcer’s older brother asked the judge not to show any leniency in sentencing, calling him a “remorseless murderer.” He also drafted a heart-wrenching victim impact statement, and read it out in court, calling Balcer an “inhuman creature,” and once again rejecting Balcer’s claims of having been abused.

“I still hear our dearest mother’s screams, every night as I fall asleep. Every morning as I awaken, they echo in my head. Her screams as she was stabbed by the son she doted on so much, the son she only wanted the world for, and would accept nothing less. I remember the foul things you accused her of, and the looks of horror upon the family’s faces as they heard about them. You are an inhuman creature and the fact that you continue to pretend otherwise sickens me.”