Trans Murder in Canada isn’t really helping with the inclusive branding is it?

This is a mass-murder story first and a culture-war story second — and anyone trying to reverse that order is selling an agenda. Tumbler Ridge is grieving, families are broken, and the country is reeling. We can hold space for that horror while also refusing the lazy scapegoating that always follows: the rush to “own” the identity of the perpetrator instead of interrogating the systems that keep producing these atrocities. – Reuters.

What happened in Tumbler Ridge — and why the facts matter

Oh God this is awful…

Pictured: Jesse Van Rootselaar, the troubled teen behind deadly mass shooting at Canadian school

The 18-year-old suspect in one of Canada’s deadliest rampages reportedly grew up around guns and had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health.

Eight people died and more than 25 wounded in two shootings in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday (local time).

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Jesse van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school, where six people died. Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound.

van Rootselaar was born a biological male, but identified as a female, authorities said.

Stuff

The culture-war reflex: everyone waits to weaponise the shooter

…the they/themselves aren’t really holding up the inclusive branding bit are they?

Every time there’s a mass shooting now, all sides hold their breath until we find out who did it so we can explode with self-righteous rage.

We all pray it’s another Republic white male loner, but this time it’s been a Trans person and that’s gone down about as well as Donald Trump and a Vegan Lesbian Folk Music Festival.

The Right will point to the Zizians, Charlie Kirks assassin (for dating a Trans person) and the 2023 Nashville school shooting as ‘proof’ of some type of ‘Trans Terrorism’.

Gender Critical Feminists are screaming the media are manipulating the crime stats by recording this as a female murder when the person who committed the shootings was biologically male as if that’s the most crucial issue right now.

What the mass-shooting data actually says about transgender perpetrators

The reality is that mass shootings from the Trans Community is a incredibly small amount…

Of the 201 mass shooters in the database, its single transgender perpetrator represents half a per cent of all shootings.

“Transgender perpetrators are under-represented in the data, not overrepresented,” Densley said.

The Gun Violence Archive runs a similar U.S. mass shooting database, and founding director Mark Bryant said it identified seven transgender mass shooters since it began tracking in 2013.

“The reality is, seven out of 4,000 (mass shootings) is a very small number,” Bryant said, adding that transgender people accounted for no more than one per cent of mass shootings in the last decade, according to the database.

According to Statistics Canada, transgender and non-binary people over the age of 15 represent 0.33% of the population. In the U.S. they represent about one per cent of the population.

“Associating an entire marginalised group with mass violence based on a statistically negligible number of cases has a long and ugly history,” Densley said. “In each case, the perceived pattern said more about the politics of the moment than about any actual causal relationship.”

The Canadian Press

The bigger pattern: transgender people are far more often victims than perpetrators

…the truth is that Trans people are far more likely to be murdered than commit mass shootings…

New global data from TGEU’s Trans Murder Monitoring 2025 (TMM) reveals a dangerous shift: a growing number of murder victims are trans movement leaders and activists. Over the past year, trans activists accounted for 14% of reported murders and are the second most targeted group globally, following sex workers. The year-on-year rise in murders of trans activists shows this is an attempt to silence those fighting for trans rights worldwide.

• 281 trans and gender diverse people were reported murdered between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.
• Since 2009, TGEU’s monitoring has now recorded 5,322 murders worldwide.
• Sex workers (34%) remain the most targeted group of all known occupations.
• There is a notable rise in murders of activists and movement leaders, who are the second most targeted group by occupation this year, accounting for 14% of cases (up from 9% in 2024 and 6% in 2023).
• Echoing the pattern of previous years, 90% of reported murders were feminicides (victims were trans women or trans-feminine people).
• 88% of victims were Black or Brown trans people, a 5% decrease from the all-time high last year (93%).
• Age distribution: 24% of murder victims were aged 19–25, 25% aged 26–30, 26% aged 31–40, and 5% under 18.
• 68% of murders occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean; Brazil leads the list for the 18th consecutive year with 30% of total cases.
• Five cases were reported in Europe, down from eight in 2024.
• 31 cases were reported in the United States, down from 41 in 2024.
• 44% of reported murders were shootings.
• 25% of murders occurred on the street, and 22% occurred in the victim’s own home.

…so before everyone starts panic mongering Trans Violence, let’s just pause, look at the facts, breath through our noses and not be arseholes.

Don’t let tragedy become propaganda

It’s a tragedy, it doesn’t need false narratives or culture war hijackings.

If you want to have an argument, have it about gun access, warning signs, mental-health intervention, and community safety — not about turning a marginalised identity into the villain of the week. That move is older than the internet: pick a minority, pin the fear on them, and call it analysis. Tumbler Ridge deserves better than being turned into someone else’s culture-war content mill.