A man who identifies as a Muslim woman is on trial after threatening to murder public safety officials in Jasper, Mississippi. Tanya Morgan, 64, has now demanded the court allow him to be euthanized.
The saga behind Morgan’s arrest has been covered extensively by the Laurel Leader-Call, an independent, locally-owned outlet which first reported on Morgan’s threats in June of this year.
According to the outlet, the situation first unfolded after Morgan was refused membership at the Rose Hill Volunteer Fire Department – something he attributed to discrimination on the grounds of his alleged Muslim faith. Enraged by the rejection, Morgan showed up to a June 4 meeting at the Jasper County Emergency Management office where he engaged in an altercation with firefighters.
After being asked to leave, Morgan made several frivolous 911 calls that culminated in him threatening to open fire into multiple county and city buildings. Morgan was arrested and taken to the Jasper County Jail.
During his brief detention, Morgan claims he was “harassed … while I was naked and trying to take a shower” and was “dragged” and “locked up naked without my clothing or hijab.” He also claimed he was inappropriately photographed by a deputy who “appeared to have an erection.”
Sheriff Randy Johnson has refuted the claims, noting video evidence exists to demonstrate the claims are false.
Since then, Morgan has taken his erratic behavior to his hearings – engaging in disputes with the first two attorneys that took his case. He has since appeared at the Covington County Circuit Court at least twice and filed a half-dozen or more motions.
Morgan has repeatedly asserted under oath that he is biologically female, despite ample evidence to the contrary. In one complaint he submitted to the Jasper County Court, Morgan wrote: “Instead of being a Muslim female, I’m being defamed and adjudicated as … a chick who cut her dick off or any other of the many homosexual slurs the Christian community of Mississippi embrace.”
During his August arraignment, the court asked him for his legal name – to which Morgan initially attempted to claim that he had a medical condition and was unable to speak.
After being questioned again by Judge Matthew Sullivan as to the name on his birth certificate, Morgan replied: “The name on my birth certificate is Matilda Jean Duffy.” But Sullivan, after reviewing some documentation, noted that Morgan appears to have previously been named “Matthew Duffy.”
Morgan has also filed a bizarre request with the court to be allowed to go to Australia, Canada, Columbia, or Italy to be euthanized.
“While in confinement I was attacked by two male officer (sic),” Morgan wrote in his request. “My faith allows me to engage in euthanasia when abused. I request you allow me to seek medical intervention in either Australia, Canada, Colombia or Italy.”
According to Mark Thornton, a reporter with the Laurel Leader-Call who was present at the hearing, Morgan then tried to argue that the claims he was biologically male were false.
Following the arraignment hearing, the reporter attempted to interview Morgan outside of the courtroom, but the scene quickly devolved into chaos as Morgan ran to the nearby Sheriff’s office to claim that the reporter had physically assaulted him. CCTV footage did not substantiate this claim.
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