A member of Zizian — a radical vegan cult whose members are largely transgender — was hauled out of a California courtroom Tuesday after accusing jailhouse guards of trying to forcibly de-transition her and wanting to kill her.
Alexander Leatham, a 29-year-old transgender woman, was attending a hearing in Solano County when she launched into the paranoia-fueled rant, according to Courthouse News.
Leatham is accused of attempting to kill her landlord in Vallejo, California, in 2022.
“I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!” Leatham shouted before being restrained and removed.
The accused attempted killer also claimed she was being de-transitioned against her will with hormone therapy — as part of a “quarter century” conspiracy against trans people.
Leatham, along with fellow Zizians Suri Dao and Emma Borhanian, allegedly attacked 82-year-old Curtis Lind when he planned to evict them from trailers on his property, prosecutors have charged.
Lind was inspecting a leak in Dao’s trailer when he took a blow to the back of his head and blacked out, according to authorities.
The landlord told police he woke up with around 50 stab wounds, a samurai sword stuck in his torso, and the three Zizians standing over him.
Lind, however, managed to grab his gun and start blasting, wounding Leatham and killing Borhanian, in what prosecutors called self-defense.
Though he survived the ordeal, he was later murdered by another Zizian, Maximilian Snyder, in order to keep him from testifying against the Leatham and Dao, prosecutors allege.
The Solano County Superior Court is working to consolidate Dao and Leatham’s cases and set a trial date — despite Leatham’s attempt to derail the proceedings.
Snyder faces a separate homicide charge for allegedly ambushing Lind and stabbing him to death.
Leatham also caused a ruckus at a hearing in March, when she yelled, “This is a show trial to coordinate the genocide of transgender people!” over and over until the judge had her tossed into a closed-off “isolation room,” Courthouse News reported.
“Her muffled shouting could be heard in the next room for the rest of the hearing,” reported Courthouse News.
But the Zizians’ trail of violence goes beyond California.
Authorities paint the alleged founder, Jack “Ziz” LaSota — a trans, 34-year-old blogger and computer engineer from Berkeley — as a kind of present-day Charles Manson whose followers are tied to six deaths in three states.
Last year, Snyder’s fiancé Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut and German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt allegedly gunned down federal agent David Maland when he stopped their car near the Canadian border in Vermont.
The agent returned fire, killing Bauckholt and wounding Youngblut, before succumbing to his wounds.
Their weapons were purchased by another Zizian, Michelle Zakjow, 32, a trans man who had been wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of his parents in their Pennsylvania home.
In February, police in Deleware arrested Zakjow, fellow Zizian Daniel Blank, and Ziz herself — who had tried to fake her death in 2022.
They face charges of trespassing, obstructing and hindering and possession of a handgun in a vehicle.
Pennsylvania state police sources told The Post they believe they had enough evidence to arrest Zakjow for the murders of his parents, but the Delaware County DA’s office said cops still had not provided adequate evidence.
