You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that there has been a surge of mass shootings committed by transgender-identifying people. The disturbing pattern is hard to ignore—but if you rely on legacy media to tell you about it, you might never know it’s happening at all.
Just last week, a trans-identified male named Jesse Van Rootselaar (also known as Jesse Strang) killed his mother and brother before heading to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where six more people—five of them children—were shot dead. Last August, there was the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and Catholic School in Minnesota. The shooter was Robert “Robin” Westman. Nineteen people were shot, including 14 children. And who can forget the horrific killings in March 2023, when Audrey “Aiden” Hale stormed the Covenant School in Nashville, killing three nine-year-olds and three adults before being stopped by police?
And now we have yet another horror—Monday night’s Rhode Island ice rink shooting during a high school hockey game at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket.
Three people were killed, including the shooter, and three others were left in critical condition. It was quickly revealed that the shooter was transgender. And let’s be honest, was anyone really that shocked? It’s happening more frequently than ever now, and it should be forcing a conversation about trans-identification and mental illness. Instead, the media is trying to pretend it’s not happening at all. The New York Times wrote more than 700 words about the shooting—without ever mentioning that Dorgan was transgender.
Not once. Their report noted, “At a later news conference on Monday night, Chief Goncalves said that the shooter’s birth name was Robert Dorgan, born in 1969. She added that the person also went by the name Roberta Esposito, but did not provide further explanation.”
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That “explanation” was obvious and had already been reported by other outlets, including PJ Media. Still, for some reason, the New York Times didn’t want the public to know this information. Instead, it decided not to report all the facts and instead, go into narrative control.
It’s obvious why outlets like the New York Times want to bury the lede. They’ll obsess over “gun violence” and “hate crimes,” but the moment a shooter identifies as trans, that detail magically disappears. I’m sure they justify their decisions privately by saying they’re trying to prevent stigmatizing transgender people, but what it really is is covering up facts that the transgender cult doesn’t want you to know.
But, I crunched the numbers and have no issue reporting the truth: Between 1966 and 2024, trans-identifying individuals were responsible for at least 2% of all mass shootings in the U.S.—even though they make up only 0.6% of the population. That means transgender shooters are represented at over three times their population share. Even men, who commit roughly 98% of all mass shootings despite being half the population, don’t commit mass shootings at that rate. And something tells me the rate is probably even higher now, considering how much more common trans shootings have become.
We have a legitimate mental health crisis on our hands, and the media doesn’t want the public to know the truth. Why? Because the truth is inconvenient. And the longer they suppress it, the deadlier the consequences become.
