Turning Point USA postponed an event at the University of Washington featuring a speaker opposing gender-affirming care for minors after community outcry following the killing of a transgender student in student housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n A 19-year-old female student was found in the laundry room of her off-campus apartment around 10:10 p.m. by university police, according to a Seattle Police blotter post. She lived in the Nordheim Court apartments\u00a0in the 5000 block of 25th Avenue Northeast. While the King County medical examiner\u2019s office has yet to identify the woman, it\u2019s been widely reported that she was transgender.<\/p>\n Some students and community members began criticizing the university\u2019s Turning Point chapter, as it was slated to host Chloe Cole, an activist who vocally opposes gender-affirming care for minors, on Wednesday. A protest against the chapter and Cole was scheduled<\/a> for Wednesday in response.<\/p>\n Victor Balta, a spokesperson for the university, said the national Turning Point organization postponed the event, not the local chapter.<\/p>\n \u201cThe national TPUSA organization made the decision to cancel the event that was scheduled for today,\u201d Balta wrote in an email. \u201cUW Student Activities Office leadership was in contact with the UW chapter of TPUSA about the appropriateness of the timing of such an event given the recent killing of a member of our LGBTQIA+ community.\u201d<\/p>\n Cole posted Tuesday evening on Instagram that she would not be speaking at the university. Cole, according to The New York Times<\/a>, was living as a transgender boy for years before de-transitioning. She went on to sue Kaiser Permanente for allowing her to receive gender-affirming procedures as a minor.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination, I think I would have been less careful, but the times have changed, and speaking on a university campus in 2026 can come with consequences,\u201d Cole said in her video. \u201cWe are postponing this event because of this reality.\u201d<\/p>\n