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Mass Shooting in Tumbler Ridge Canada

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fromorbit · 11/02/2026 07:59

Looks like it was a man in a dress. Another tragedy. More lives lost. Boys with violent tendencies cannot be told they are actually girls. The violent background of trans activism is a problem.

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https://x.com/reduxx/status/2021483339719311435

BREAKING

The identity of the Tumbler Ridge shooter can now be confirmed as Jesse “Jess” Strang.

Strang is a biological male who started to “identify” as a "girl" around 2023.

Strang was raised in a family that valued hunting, and began learning how to shoot rifles when he was just a child. Many guns were kept in the family's residence.

Facebook posts from his mother indicate he may have struggled with behavioral issues, including violent tendencies, from a very young age.

Strang fatally shot 10 people prior to taking his own life.

In 2021, Strang launched a YouTube channel that was promoted by his mother on her Facebook. The channel was dedicated to "hunting, self-reliance, guns" and his other interests. At some point, Strang deleted the content on the channel and changed his handle from "Jesse Boy" to "JessJessUwU." The only remaining post on the channel was made 6 months ago and reads "I've been pretty, um, aimless."

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BREAKING The identity of the Tumbler Ridge shooter can now be confirmed as Jesse “Jess” Strang. Strang is a biological male who started to “identify” as a "girl" around 2023. Strang was raised in a family that valued hunting, and began learning ho...

https://x.com/reduxx/status/2021483339719311435

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fromorbit · 13/02/2026 08:57

A point I saw on X. There have been only 11 mass shootings in Canada since the 70s. All of those were carried out by males including Tumbler Ridge.

So, as of now, the Canadian trans school shooter rate is 9.1%, while the 2021 Canadians census suggests that only 0.33% of Canadians are trans/non-binary.

A lot of the stats discussed focus on the US where there have been a spate of trans mass shootings in recent years amongst the huge number of other killings, but we should remember in Canada mass shooting is far more rare.

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fromorbit · 13/02/2026 08:51

Zonder · 12/02/2026 15:50

I agree - but like him or not Trump has improved women's rights in the US in relation to gender woo from where they were prior to his election. That's just a fact.

I hate this so much. Yay, he knows what a woman is. And boy does he know how to treat them like shit too. He knows what a woman is - it's a gender stereotype that I can't subscribe to.

Trump treats women badly. No doubt.

BUT - old school sexism and misogyny which still dominates much of the world is an enemy that women have been fighting FOREVER.

A lot of victories have been won. This is an enemy which we are never going to stop altogether, but which in many Western countries has been pushed back massively.

Sexism 2.0 which pretends women are not biological and/or rebrands traditional exploitation as empowerment is an interconnected threat, but it also in a certain way more dangerous.

Because if you can't name sexism how do you stop it.

Trump's election is a step back, but it is interconnected with wider issues. He won partially because sexism 2.0 also terrifies people and they resorted to an old model to fight back rather than rejecting both.

We take all of them down, but there is NO WAY to win if the gender people get their way. Look what just happened in that EU vote.

Because their stuff is interconnected with modern life in corporations, education, media everywhere.

It is like the sexist ideas that dominated society prior to the 70s spread by religion and custom. Only you were allowed to say those ideas hurt women. Women literally took on Churches which dominated society forever and won because the churches have to admit women are a thing, even though they are second class.

If women exist they can fight back, and WIN. It has happened before. It is happening here on Terf Island bit by bit.

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DameProfessorIDareSay · 13/02/2026 08:35

The comments from Stephanie Davies-Arai in this article should be a wake up call to anyone who believes ‘affirmation’ is the right way to deal with these children:

""There are genuine concerns among campaigners and health professionals that some vulnerable youngsters with mental health issues might be being led toward violence, thanks to the cocktail of cross-sex hormones they are being prescribed. “The number of shootings by trans-identified young people should be ringing alarm bells by now,” says Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend, an organisation calling for evidence-based healthcare for children and young people suffering gender dysphoria. Davies-Arai says she is worried by the rise in these crimes."

“We know the children who identify as ‘trans’ are among the most vulnerable groups – some are highly disturbed. And yet we’re not investigating this, we’re told to simply ‘affirm’ them.

“As soon as a child declares they are ‘trans’, all underlying issues are ignored and the child is denied proper mental health care – in fact, the activists claim this would be ‘conversion therapy’.’’

Davies-Arai says she is concerned about what so-called “gender affirming care” is doing to the physical and mental health of these young people. Studies have found that there is a higher rate of suicide among trans people compared to the population at large.

“What happens when we give mentally ill children blockers to disrupt their development and powerful cross-sex hormones their bodies were not built to function on? We need a proper investigation into the risks of giving young people large doses of the wrong sex hormone.

“We’ve seen too many violent suicides* *and mass shootings from young people who are either on these drugs, or have never received the therapeutic care they need and their mental health has grown worse and risk escalate[s]. We need to stop seeing affirmation of a child’s trans identity as ‘kind’ and recognise it as negligent.”"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/debd4d1d95978c8b

Are cross-sex drugs driving trans shooters to kill?

News that the Canada school attacker was transitioning has raised concerns about the role of medication in other recent killings

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/debd4d1d95978c8b

oldtiredcyclist · 13/02/2026 08:20

Here is another video (wonder how long it will stay up) about Strang, the RCMP and the media.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOfwaf3MMwg

oldtiredcyclist · 13/02/2026 08:18

Zonder · 12/02/2026 15:51

Exactly so. His beliefs about women are sick. And not in a Gen Z way.

What are your views on the Democrats trying to ruin sports for young girls and women in the USA? What are your views on Bill Clinton and high profile Democrats, taking dozens of trips on Epstein's private jet. the so called "Lolita Express"?

oldtiredcyclist · 13/02/2026 08:16

Ereshkigalangcleg · 13/02/2026 07:55

do you think I support them? I don’t.

Apologies for that, I meant to quote another person. That is the second time it has happened today. I will have another go at quoting the correct poster.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 13/02/2026 07:55

oldtiredcyclist · 13/02/2026 07:53

What are your views on the Democrats trying to ruin sports for young girls and women in the USA? What are your views on Bill Clinton and high profile Democrats, taking dozens of trips on Epstein's private jet. the so called "Lolita Express"?

do you think I support them? I don’t.

oldtiredcyclist · 13/02/2026 07:53

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/02/2026 16:14

Absolutely.

What are your views on the Democrats trying to ruin sports for young girls and women in the USA? What are your views on Bill Clinton and high profile Democrats, taking dozens of trips on Epstein's private jet. the so called "Lolita Express"?

speakout · 13/02/2026 07:44

It is important to know the sex of the shooter - accurately. In order to tackle and prevent gun crime, crime of any sort we have to have an accurate picture of what is actually going on. We need information that is true.
If this incident is marked down as a female shooter then figures become skewed, and understanding the reasons behind crime become foggy and innacurate. Provision for police handling, incarceration, rehabilitation all need accurate figures of prisoner sex.
Less than 2% of mass shooters are women- and that really, really matters.Mass shooting is almost exclusively carried out by men, and that is a crucial piece of information.

ItsNotOrwell · 13/02/2026 00:36

ArabellaScott · 12/02/2026 20:32

But most people will not just accept this now, surely? Most people know he is male. All this does is foster resentment and anger towards the media.

I saw a televised news report that did not mention the shooter’s sex or gender at all. TBH, it makes little difference to me. He’s still a killer, whatever he chose to call himself.

Elbowpatch · 13/02/2026 00:31

HildegardP · 13/02/2026 00:23

Ah, "JesseBoy", understood. Once people have even a very few followers they tend to be reluctant to drop a username though so again, that "boy" isn't telling us anything one way or the other.
From reports, the kid was fucked-up & violent before he started mucking about with Gender Identitarianism, I very much doubt that helped, but he seems to have had a whole slew of problems.

His mother certainly thought he was a boy in July 2021.

According to a July 2021 Facebook post, Jennifer Strang wrote: "Check out my oldest son Jesse Strang YouTube channel. He posts about hunting, self reliance, guns and stuff he likes to do.”
Having started to transition around six years ago, it's believed that Van Rootselaar eventually dropped out of school. Going by the name of Jess in 2026, Van Rootselaar's uncle says the suspect had several online accounts.
The outlet notes that Van Rootselaar changed the name of the channel from 'JesseBoy' to 'JessJessUwU', although only one post remains. Featuring the transgender flag and listing 'she/her' pronouns, the video was made around six months ago and said: "I’ve been pretty, um, aimless."

https://www.uniladtech.com/social-media/youtube/jesse-van-rootselaar-youtube-channel-canadian-school-shooter-872799-20260212

Canadian school shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar's YouTube channel revealed

Jesse Van Rootselaar has been named as the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School shooting suspect, with their YouTube channel also being found.

https://www.uniladtech.com/social-media/youtube/jesse-van-rootselaar-youtube-channel-canadian-school-shooter-872799-20260212

HildegardP · 13/02/2026 00:23

SternJoyousBeev2 · 13/02/2026 00:06

The cake says ‘Jesse Boy’ which I believe was also his original YT username so I think the case was his.

Ah, "JesseBoy", understood. Once people have even a very few followers they tend to be reluctant to drop a username though so again, that "boy" isn't telling us anything one way or the other.
From reports, the kid was fucked-up & violent before he started mucking about with Gender Identitarianism, I very much doubt that helped, but he seems to have had a whole slew of problems.

SternJoyousBeev2 · 13/02/2026 00:06

HildegardP · 13/02/2026 00:02

Nothing says it's his cake. In the aftermath, the media will have been combing the web for any image of him they could find, a pic of him at some other kid's birthday is still a pic of him.

The cake says ‘Jesse Boy’ which I believe was also his original YT username so I think the case was his.

HildegardP · 13/02/2026 00:02

lcakethereforeIam · 12/02/2026 20:33

If he was trans identifying at 12 yo why is there a picture of him with a 13th birthday cake with 'boy' on it?

Nothing says it's his cake. In the aftermath, the media will have been combing the web for any image of him they could find, a pic of him at some other kid's birthday is still a pic of him.

MusicWasMyFirstLove · 12/02/2026 23:30

lcakethereforeIam · 12/02/2026 20:33

If he was trans identifying at 12 yo why is there a picture of him with a 13th birthday cake with 'boy' on it?

Ask the local police in Tumbler Ridge - they communicated to the press that he was identifying as female six years ago.

PaterPower · 12/02/2026 22:48

spannasaurus · 12/02/2026 01:07

There's another thread on aibu, this one was always here

My mistake, thanks for the link :-)

MusicWasMyFirstLove · 12/02/2026 21:26

ArabellaScott · 12/02/2026 20:32

But most people will not just accept this now, surely? Most people know he is male. All this does is foster resentment and anger towards the media.

Yes - they have a new word for this in German "Die Lügenpresse" - the lying mass media.

OldCrone · 12/02/2026 20:42

lcakethereforeIam · 12/02/2026 20:33

If he was trans identifying at 12 yo why is there a picture of him with a 13th birthday cake with 'boy' on it?

They seem to be changing the story as time goes on for reasons which are not entirely clear. I'm sure the earliest reports said that he had only been identifying as trans for about 2 years.

Perhaps they think people will be more sympathetic towards a murderer if they believe he was once a 'trans child'. And being sympathetic towards him is important because he's one of the sacred trans caste.

The people spreading this misinformation need to step outside their bubble and switch their brains back on (if that's possible).

lcakethereforeIam · 12/02/2026 20:33

If he was trans identifying at 12 yo why is there a picture of him with a 13th birthday cake with 'boy' on it?

ArabellaScott · 12/02/2026 20:32

ScrollingLeaves · 12/02/2026 14:24

Australia ! :

Canadian police have identified the person who carried out a school massacre as an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues.
The killer, who police named as Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed herself after the shooting ….,,

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/canadian-shooter-identified-in-school-attack/106333992

But most people will not just accept this now, surely? Most people know he is male. All this does is foster resentment and anger towards the media.

MusicWasMyFirstLove · 12/02/2026 20:24

OldCrone · 12/02/2026 10:51

Trans children were invented by the trans lobby to deflect from the fact that adult male transsexuals (both heterosexual and homosexual) are sexually motivated.

If children can be trans it suggests that transsexualism (or transgenderism) is a harmless expression of identity, not a men's sexual rights movement.

The trans lobby needs trans children as an aid to pulling the wool over well-meaning people's eyes.

100%
The overwhelming majority of men who cross-dress do so for sexual gratification and they have been lying to everyone who would listen that they knew they were trans when they were toddlers...

They lie so that they can indulge their paraphilia in the public sphere and enter women only spaces.

These men are pathological narcissists who do not care about anyone or anything other than their own pleasure.

They happily lie to gullible adults and tell vulnerable young children that their mental health issues are due to being "born in the wrong body".
It's a big fat lie.

These men will stop at nothing to get what they want (i.e. sexual gratification) and they do not care how much chaos and violence they cause along the way.

This young boy was vulnerable from an early age.
He came from a broken family, grew up without his father and led a quasi nomadic life due to his mother constantly moving (from one side of Canada to the other) before he was even ten. One of her children's fathers had to take her to court in 2015 to stop her from leaving British Columbia again and to force her to give his phone number to his children...
Her eldest son has identified as a girl since he was 11 or 12 and dropped out of school when he was only 14... He had serious mental health issues, was on prescription medication and was also experimenting with various illegal drugs.
He described himself as "aimless" on Reddit about six months ago.
A lost soul.

Delphinium20 · 12/02/2026 19:01

Arguably people lying and trying to coercively control and force others to lie about biological sex of criminals is one of the reasons people voted for Trump.

And because of this utterly ridiculous line in the sand by Democrats, we how have Trump who is terrorizing and kidnapping citizens, immigrants, those attempting to become citizens and those who have committed no crime and are here without papers. Trump may have been good in stopping gender nonsense, but he's an authoritarian monster for everything else. This lie about gender and sex has had far-reaching consequences where I now equally despise gender ideologues as much as MAGAs.

Holdmeclosertinydancer2018 · 12/02/2026 18:57

Carbooboo · 12/02/2026 15:06

Has anyone else noticed that the entire event has essentially disappeared from the BBC news page? I bet it would still be the main headline if it had been an ACTUAL woman who carried out the attack. Suspect they are trying to draw as little attention as possible to the fact it was a TIM perpetrator.

I think this too, but I also think after the uproar last year in regards to BBC reporting on 'birthing people' they are in a very precarious spot as they lost so many gender critical viewers. They'll likely be caught between a rock and a hard place as a captured institution that must appease the majority in order to stay relevant/in business.

DeanElderberry · 12/02/2026 18:23

MarieDeGournay · 12/02/2026 17:48

'Why can't I be petit an smol?'

I think that's sad. He was obviously a little boy with big problems, possibly inherent psychological ones, possibly messed up by a chaotic environment, but one this is for sure: the last thing a confused, damaged child needed was being told when he was 12 that he could become a woman. As he hit adulthood, it became obvious that wasn't happening for him, because women must be 'petit an smol' and he wasn't.

I mentioned this before - all the children he killed in the school, which was a High School and so had older children, were around the age of 12. Were they chosen because they were petit an smol? Or was he halting their lives at the age he set out on his failed transition?

A reasonable explanation for an irrational act. Probably the best we can get.

Sometimes when adults who survived terrible and chaotic childhoods are interviewed that mention teachers who gave the support and stability. The dreadful thing about Canada's adoption of gender lunacy is that that is much less likely to happen. Add in online exposure to grooming and madness. This won't be the last time this happens, as long as the media continue to lie.

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