Like many men who have transformed into women, Brushawn Shawmayne McClam found himself with a smaller pool of men who are willing to be sexually involved with the person he had become. And so he tricked unsuspected 20 year old Makhari Gasaway into thinking he was born a woman, who after getting into the act of sex realized there was no vagina available because Shawmayne was actually born a man.
On June 21, 2022 at around 12:30am, Gulfort police were called to a 39th Avenue address at the Emerald Pines apartments in Gulfport Mississippi after shots rang out from inside an apartment complex. Upon arrival, they found 27 year old Brushawn McClam shot to death from 2 gunshot wounds, and his 21 year old sister Kenisha McLain suffering with 3 gunshot wounds but still alive and breathing.
She told police that she and her brother were shot by an unknown black male wearing dark clothes who entered their apartment around midnight.
Detectives subsequently secured and watched video surveillance from more than 20 locations throughout Gulfport and tracked the suspect’s trail on a bicycle after the shooting, to another apartment complex – Oxford Point apartments, where they found the bicycle. A search warrant was obtained to take the bicycle and search the nearby apartment, where they located identification, the firearm, and clothes worn by Makhari at the time of the crime.
Detectives then interviewed Makhari who admitted the firearm was his, and that he went to the apartment to meet Shawmayne, who he met through a dating website. He later admitted to the shootings at the apartment after he found out that Shawmayne was actually a male.
He pleaded guilty to 1 count of second-degree murder, 1 count of aggravated assault, and 1 count of tampering with evidence and was sentenced on October 11, 2024 to 30 years in prison with no parole eligibility, and five years of reporting, post-release supervision.
During the hearing Judge Lisa Dodson asked, “Why didn’t you just walk out? I can’t fathom why you would react so viscerally as to shoot somebody. No one did anything to you. The family will suffer forever, and you will have this long sentence.”
My Take:
I’m not in full agreement with the judge, but let’s first establish that no one deserves to have their life taken from them, unless they tried to take the other person’s life first.
However, us knowing this and saying this is not going to stop these murders from happening. No one knows how the other person is going to “react” after being deceived or offended Judge Lisa Dodson. And Shawmayne in fact did something to Makhari, though not physically. Shawmayne tricked Makhari into intimacy with him pretending to have a vagina because he knew that was what Makhari wanted, and this was very wrong and misleading.
So what can each person do to prevent this happening to her or himself? Be honest in all your sexual dealings.
In this case, Brushawn Shawmayne McClam should have never misled Makhari Gasaway into thinking he was born a woman. If you were born a man and you choose to identify as a woman – changing your identifying organ, wearing women’s clothing and makeup, and taking on the behavior of a woman, then it’s on you to be honest in your sexual dealings and let the man know you were born a man but have transformed into a woman. Let him have the option and make the choice to knowingly be with who you have become.
Otherwise, there may not be enough burial plots to bury the number of transformed people who engage in deceitful sexual acts.
There are men who want and desire to be with men who have transformed into women, and there are men who do not want or desire to be with men who have transformed into women but rather be with women who were born women. Locate those men that do want and desire to be with you for who you have become, and be with them.
And young men, you’ve got to learn to walk away! Learn to control your emotions long enough to weigh the consequences you may have to suffer, with what you are about to do, to see if it is worth it. Makhari has thrown away his life because of one bad and costly decision, that was done without any thought put into it.
The long and short:
Makhari Gasaway will be severely punished serving 30 years in prison, but Brushawn Shawmayne McClam is dead and gone, and no punishment of the perpetrator will be able to bring him back.
If staying alive is the goal, be honest with all your sexual dealings. Be who you want to be, but allow others to be who they want to be as well.
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