At least seven dead after school shooting in British Columbia

What if that leads to people spotting the suspect, clocking that he isn't female, and then failing to take the necessary precautions?

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not.

If he had survived and gone on the run, they would have rather told everyone to look out for a woman (they might perhaps have slipped "assigned male at birth" somewhere three paras down) than be open and honest about the very first characteristic people will clock after skin colour. Affirming the lie trumps everything.

Unfortunately, self identification is enshrined in law in Canada, the trans lobby is extremely powerful there, they are calling the killer a gun person rather than mis gender him. The correct pronouns usage is way more important than dead children apparently.....

Very true, I agree.

They can’t bring themselves to be honest about it, even now. Weasels.

This is precisely why accurate reporting matters though. We wouldn’t be discussing it if it had been reported accurately. It takes away from the main issue which is the dreadful loss of life.

I hope you're wrong. Being lied to when people's safety was still at risk is surely likely to make ordinary people angry. However, it's possible or likely Canada doesn't have a resistance organised enough to really push for change. I hope, for their sake, this is at least a crack in the dominance of the ideology.

FFS. So many people dead, probably many children, and all people can hark on about here is bloody gender ideology, and bicker with each other. I'm heartbroken for the families of these poor children. The shooter is apparently dead. No doubt a full investigation will be carried out, and only then will we actually know the complete truth. Whoever he/she/it/they was, there was obviously severe mental illness involved. Abdolute tragedy for all concerned.

He's not a woman of any description though. He's a man.

He.

Something needs to be done about this. It seems every year a white male does this.

If this was another race it would become part of their stereotype.

They’ve just said on the BBC news that they were initially looking for a woman in a dress. Why are they repeating this when they now know it’s not a woman?

It won't wake them up. If he'd survived they'd house him in a women's prison and impose sanctions on anyone who didn't refer to him as female. They'll record it as a female crime and accuse anyone who objects, even if that includes bereaved families, of exploiting a tragedy to advance their bigotry.

The country is insane on this matter. This devastation won't change it.

Possible, but no need, Canada has high levels of gun ownership (lower than the US).

Tragic for all of those involved.

Again and again in these stories, troubled children have been given free access to guns in their parents homes.

It is astonishing these parents think this is a good idea…!

I hate that this is what it takes to wake Canada up. I always figured it'd be a woman in the boxing ring that would be killed. Instead it's kids at school. How very sad. I feel absolutely awful for the families of the victims.

Have they identified them? Can’t see anything yet!

The name has now been released and a relative has confirmed the shooter was born male and was transgender presenting as female and using she/her pronouns

But if the initial reports the police were getting were saying it's a girl in a dress, why would they change that to person?

I agree that if it's now clear that the shooter was male, that ought to be stated

The reports should say acutely disturbed male murders school friend. Those poor kids and families destroyed by someone who was failed by society.

In the independent article it says that the shooter has been described as female which would be unusual as nearly all mass shootings are committed by men

Instantly when i saw the description of the shooter i knew they would be a non woman

I suppose the next thing will be that this terrible crime will be recorded as committed by a woman and the stat produced when these people want to say that women also commit mass shootings.

"Person" would do fine as a description. "A person in a dress with brown hair". "A brown-haired person in a dress".

You will often find that channels like Fox News will report accurately in matters like this, while more left wing channels-including the BBC-will tie themselves in knots in an effort to avoid calling a spade a shovel or, in this case, calling a man a man.

It comes to something when accurate reporting is sacrificed on the altar of stupidity.

Canada, Land of the Mounties, Rockies and reality denial is going on.

Canada believes men can be literally women.