Mass Shooting in Tumbler Ridge Canada

BBC
'We have not yet received confirmation of the suspect's gender or identity.'

Euphemism time.
Weasel words.

You know there's speculation based on what they DON'T say as much as what they do say.

If we get an incident in the UK we get references to "the man's ethnicity has not been revealed" for example.

We know what the BBC will say in time....

I KNEW it wouldn’t be a woman. I knew it. The first thing I did was forward the article to DH and say ‘woman?’. How devastating for the parents. It really feels as if transgender shooters are now very over represented and some kind of urgent inquiry is needed into why. They won’t do it, of course - this is a ‘vulnerable community’ who mustn’t be scrutinised

This is the result of giving cross sex hormones and useless 'affirmation' to a turbulent teen who actually needed intensive psychiatric care.

This is what happens when mental illness gets rebranded as a totally normal and even positive thing. It stops being treated.

I read it first on the BBC and then read it on the ABC. When I read it on the Beeb, I immediately thought it was worded very carefully. Seems that the staff at the ABC read it and decided to use the term woman in an early article.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-11/british-columbia-high-school-shooting-multiple-dead/106331278?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

I noticed that ABC have now changed their coverage to follow the BBC. But I did wonder at the time whether the ABC had this current information and yet still chose to report this person as if the person was a ‘woman’ because that seemed to fit what the ABC does still. I now feel I cannot trust the ABC.

there are ppl suggesting that no one in that village would have known that he was male

No. I'm suggesting that Canadian teens would say he was female.

My teens know every trans student in their community. They stand out.

My 15 year old son said “can you believe a woman would do this” I said “no. I will put money on this being a trans woman”

Given that he was 17 and had only started "identifying as female" in 2023? So for at least 14 years the locals and his classmates knew him as a male.

And Jesse is a male name, the name he had before he "identified as female", after which he called himself Jess.

What a tragedy.

I hope everyone injured now recovers but the community must be reeling.

ten ppl are shot dead by a man who only transitioned in 2023 and already there are ppl suggesting that no one in that village would have known that he was male

they could have said transwoman if they really couldn't bring themselves to say man

I mean fucking hell

Who knows? In an emergency, people do what they can with the partial information they have.

they might leap into the idea, but they’ve got eyes, ears and senses so will instantly recognise a male when they encounter one.

"female in a dress with brown hair"
It's such a strange description. They don't even mention the colour of the dress.

However the town is described as small and close-knit. Perhaps that coded description told them everything they needed to know.

Surely you'd just identify them by name if everyone knows everyone?

Telling everyone to avoid 'a female' would be pointless anyway as it was a man in a dress who needed to be avoided. If you are going to describe a person as "female" but have to include quote marks then everyone knows it means a man. Language matters.

My experience of even UK teens is that they are very quick to leap into the idea that their transgender classmates are instantly the sex they say they are.

But it could be as simple as "report says dress, long hair, girl?, run"

In a town the size of a large village people would know perfectly well that a boy child did not grow up to be female or a woman.

The false description (to protect the shooter's feelings? to protect the people pushing gender theory?) put everyone in Tumbler Ridge in increased danger.

I don't know what would work better in those emergency first minutes. Say male shooter, and have their classmates assume it couldn't be Jesse? It's not about us, as distant readers of the news.

Would they have known him as "female"? Given that he was 17 and had only started "identifying as female" in 2023.

As soon as I heard, I knew. Maybe this will finally ‘peak’ some people, that’s the only good that could possibly come from such an awful attack

The immediate urgency though would be to tell the locals who to avoid. If the alleged shooter's classmates and community knew them as "female", warnings of a male shooter would have been inadequate.

It's a town the size of a large village. They probably all knew each other.

That inaccurate report could have cost lives

In the last 10 minutes the BBC have repeated about a woman in a dress. Shame on them.

Likeothers as soon as I heard the description I guessed it was a TIM.

it is a crisis that being transgender is not treated as the mental health problem it undeniably is.

as soon as I heard that a woman had shot dead ten people I thought this was a male crime.

I thought it was highly unusual that a woman committed a mass shooting. I was waiting for the true story to come out. This confirms what I wondered.