Yesterday, news broke of a deadly school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, a small town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, that claimed the lives of 10, including the perpetrator and two of the perpetrator’s family members, and injured 25 others. The first mass shooting in Canada this year and one of the deadliest in the country’s history, the tragedy quickly garnered international attention—something that only accelerated following reports earlier today that the suspect had been identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, a transgender woman.
Almost immediately after this was reported, anti-trans figures were quick to hold the entire trans community responsible: Elon Musk blamed gender-affirming care for being “rage-inducing,” Chaya Raichik posted about “trans violence,” Matt Walsh characterized trans people as “mentally ill, delusional, and self-destructive,” Benny Johnson called “trans violence” an “epidemic,” and the far-right account End Wokeness made numerous posts drawing attention to the fact that the shooter was trans.
This rhetoric isn’t new either. For the past few years, right-wing activists have latched onto tragedies like the Tumbler Ridge shooting to advance their anti-trans agenda. Then, after declaring trans people as inherently “violent” and “mentally ill,” they advocate for further restrictions on trans Americans. Recently, this trend has only worsened as conservatives broaden their attacks to target trans adults as well.
The escalation started in August 2025. Following the Annunciation shooting in Minneapolis, in which the shooter was identified as being a trans person, Trump administration officials, including Kristi Noem and Kash Patel, made a point to emphasize that fact. Meanwhile, Benny Johnson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and others pinned responsibility onto ‘gender ideology’ and once again spread debunked claims that trans people were responsible for other major mass shootings like Uvalde and Milwaukee.
26 mass shootings at home this year already,, but a trans person in a different country snapped and so that’s all they care about. Fucking ghouls. Bring it up to them and they’ll probably claim all 26 were false flags carried out by the transgender mafia
“The abuse of trans people will continue until their mental stability improves!”
I’m seeing reports online (probably still speculation, but still) that she was radicalized by online neo-Nazi terrorist grooming group O9A (Order of Nine Angles).
There’s a Weird Little Guys podcast episode called The Devils Chatroom detailing O9A’s philosophy and tactics of preying on vulnerable young people.
O9A have actually been tied to quite a few mass shootings, including that one at the St Paul church
Funny how they ignore the >400 other mass shootings every year by mostly white guys.
What’s the numbers like for political affiliation of mass shooters?
What about the 99.999999999999% of mass shooters that are straight white males who have no record of seeking treatment for the mental illness issues everyone around them knows they have?
They want us to be dangerous and unstable. I kinda feel like I perhaps should be you know, just to make them happy.
Dangerous, sure. But I’d prefer not to be unstable, I’d only want to hurt those I fully intended to, not random bystanders.
Dangerous extends to physically harming your oppressors. If you’re also unstable you can use them to start a shrunken head collection.
Dangerous extends to physically harming your opressors.
Down. Very cool
If you’re also unstable you can use them to start a shrunken head collection.
You do you, I guess. My share of the oppressor corpses will be used to fertilize the awesome garden I’m gonna have. Or, I dunno, I’ll use them to feed an ancient tree or something. I’ll figure it out.
I will accept this if they start talking about the dozens and dozens of maga nuts who have done the same shit. Label them as a danger to society as well and we can certainly have this talk, otherwise blow it out your ass.
