WATCH: Trans-Identifying Man Confesses Gender Surgery Drove Him To Execute Parents

A disturbing police video released this week shows a transgender-identifying man admitting to the murder of his parents because his mom wanted to stop him from having gender surgery. 

Video obtained by KUTV shows a 28-year-old Collin Troy Bailey confessing to murdering his parents, Joseph and Gail, in Washington County, Utah, after police arrested him back in June 2024. Bailey, who claims to be a woman and goes by “Mia,” was convicted in November 2025 and sentenced to two 25-year life sentences for the murders. 

“I told them I was going to kill myself so many times,” Bailey told police. “Mental health declining, that’s why I needed that surgery.”

He told investigators his mom attempted to stop him from having transgender surgery. 

“She was trying to sabotage it. She always had boundary issues,” Bailey said. “I had one thing going on, and she took that away from me. […] She can’t say sorry to save her life, apparently. And I gave her so many chances throughout my life.”

The footage shows Bailey flippantly referring to blindly shooting through a door, not caring if he injured his brother, saying, “If I did, so what?” 

Bailey said he had no regrets about murdering his parents. 

“So much for family,” he said. “I spent years trying to fix that broken ass family. Eventually, I had to get out, either going to kill myself or kill.”

Bailey told police that the public should be more supportive of people who want to become transgender. 

Police tracked Bailey down and found him in the woods after he carried out the murders with a gun he bought from a pawn shop. Bailey had planned to kill himself, but was detained by police without incident after a manhunt. 

“I went to my parents to do the deed. Kill them,” he said. “It was spur-of-the-moment. I don’t regret it. I hate them. That was the last straw.”

Bailey appears to currently be housed in Utah State Correctional Facility’s Antelope unit, a maximum security male facility. 

There have been growing concerns about violence motivated by transgender ideology after the last several years have seen multiple deadly school shootings targeting Christian schools carried out by gender-confused assailants. 

The White House released a new Counter Terrorism Strategy earlier this month, promising “rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups,” including those subscribing to transgender ideology.