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Rhode Island - Another crossdressing male mass shooter

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fromorbit · 17/02/2026 04:52

Mourn the victims.

Robert K. Dorgan ("Roberta Esposito") killed two people and critically injured three others.

Rhode Island hockey shooter ID’d as transgender father Robert Dorgan
The suspected shooter sat near the back of the stands on the home team’s side during the game before he moved to the front and opened fire at four family members and one family friend, the outlet reported.
The student’s mother and sibling were among the dead, multiple sources told the outlet. The mother of Dorgan’s child died inside Lynch Arena, while the sibling died at the hospital, according to the sources.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/us-news/robert-dorgan-idd-as-rhode-island-hockey-shooter/

He was active on social media threatening violence and attacking women who knew biology.

More details on the background

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15565931/Hockey-shooting-Rhode-Island-Robert-Dorgan-transgender.html

A lot of the coverage seems to be calling him a guy this time.

Stop this madness!

Obviously one must suspect Dorgan was inspired by the Tumbler ridge killer these type of evil men imitate each other.

How long are we going to let this happen?

Rhode Island hockey shooter ID’d as transgender father Robert Dorgan

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said that Dorgan, 56, also uses the alias Roberta Esposito.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/us-news/robert-dorgan-idd-as-rhode-island-hockey-shooter/

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 17/02/2026 09:15

MarieDeGournay · 17/02/2026 09:12

I think that's a very wise and perceptive comment, nicepotoftea.

These are people with complex 'issues', and you have situated the trans aspect very well when you say it was 'a maladaptive solution has been offered to men with severe mental health problems.' in these cases.

And more broadly, a 'maladaptive solution' which is also offered to gender-questioning children, etc etc.

A very useful phrase, thank you.

Agreed.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 17/02/2026 09:14

ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:52

How it's come to the present state of affairs instead is absolutely baffling to me

A very long, sustained, dedicated campaign. Edit: or series of campaigns. See the Dentons document, see Press for Change, Endocrine Soc/WPATH, Stonewall, Beaumont Society, etc.

Edited

I know! So much tireless work behind the scenes and below the radar, if you'll forgive the mixed metaphors. But why were people so credulous? Why was there so little critical thinking applied? Why did nobody in the medical profession and all the other professional bodies that have swung behind this say 'Hang on a minute ...' I suppose in a lot of cases it's inertia. Few people bother to get involved in running unions and professional bodies or even read up on what they're doing in their members' names, so they're very easily overrun by ideologues. Then there are those who saw that there was money to be made from this new area of medicine and 'therapy', and others who thought if they could be the ones blazing a trail in a novel and fashionable field it would lead to academic posts, research grants, promotions etc etc.

I see glimmerings of hope that the US insurance sector is belatedly waking up to the enormous sums they might end up paying out to victims of medical malpractice. That may well spell the end for this. Let's hope so.

MarieDeGournay · 17/02/2026 09:12

nicepotoftea · 17/02/2026 09:02

I think the common thread in the two cases is that a maladaptive solution has been offered to men with severe mental health problems.

I think that's a very wise and perceptive comment, nicepotoftea.

These are people with complex 'issues', and you have situated the trans aspect very well when you say it was 'a maladaptive solution has been offered to men with severe mental health problems.' in these cases.

And more broadly, a 'maladaptive solution' which is also offered to gender-questioning children, etc etc.

A very useful phrase, thank you.

nicepotoftea · 17/02/2026 09:11

Helleofabore · 17/02/2026 04:58

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-roberta-dorgan-pawtucket-hockey-arena-shooting-suspect-11531815

Who Was Robert Dorgan or Roberta Esposito? Hockey Rink Shooting Suspect

Police identified the suspect in the Pawtucket hockey arena shooting as 56‑year‑old Robert Dorgan, who also used the name Roberta Esposito.

Dorgan was the parent of a senior player and fatally shot four family members and a family friend during a youth hockey game Monday, killing two people and wounding three others before taking his own life.

From that report

"An image of the Pawtucket shooting suspect Roberta Esposito from their Facebook page."

If they are concerned about 'misgendering' they should avoid pronouns all together or note in the article that pronouns refer to sex, not gender.

If they don't do this it can only be concluded that believe they owe the killer respect.

ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 09:10

RNApolymerase · 17/02/2026 09:09

This is not on the BBC news website, that I can see. Wonder why?

No space because of the humorous piece of Obama making a joke about aliens, I suppose.

RNApolymerase · 17/02/2026 09:09

This is not on the BBC news website, that I can see. Wonder why?

RedToothBrush · 17/02/2026 09:04

ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:36

A concerning thought. Narc rage is dangerous.

I've said this for years and years. If you are sold a lie then you will always get angry. How that manifests is scary in this case though.

fafafafafafafafafafarbetter · 17/02/2026 09:03

@Helleofabore that picture of him feeding a baby is truly chilling.

nicepotoftea · 17/02/2026 09:02

Igmum · 17/02/2026 08:55

That poor family and what an evil man. Two trans shooters in a couple of days. And a stunning silence from the gender ideologues and our usual drive by scolders. They’re all happy to argue tiny persecuted minority when it suits them, but not at the point people would say that a remarkably high proportion of this tiny minority are violent criminals.

I think the common thread in the two cases is that a maladaptive solution has been offered to men with severe mental health problems.

Hoardasurass · 17/02/2026 09:00

ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:23

People on X calling him a 'Groyper' and saying he wasn't really trans.

What makes him 'not trans', I wonder.

When the behaviour of these men make transwomen look really bad they are "at it" its the same as isla Brison and rapist gender.

These are dangerous violent men who cant handle the fact that they can't coerce people to play along with their fantasies. I note that he tried to weaponise the police and crts but when that failed as the charges were dropped he resorted to murder.

Claiming a trans identity should result in the immediate removal of all firearms and trigger a mental health investigation. It should be treated in the same way as it would if they claimed to be napoleon or jesus

Igmum · 17/02/2026 08:55

That poor family and what an evil man. Two trans shooters in a couple of days. And a stunning silence from the gender ideologues and our usual drive by scolders. They’re all happy to argue tiny persecuted minority when it suits them, but not at the point people would say that a remarkably high proportion of this tiny minority are violent criminals.

nicepotoftea · 17/02/2026 08:54

https://www.wpri.com/target-12/pawtucket-shooters-gender-identity-tied-to-past-family-disputes-court-records-show/

Around the same time, Dorgan’s then-wife Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce. Under grounds for divorce, Rhonda initially wrote, “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits.” Those reasons were then crossed out and replaced with “irreconcilable differences which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage.”

ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:52

How it's come to the present state of affairs instead is absolutely baffling to me

A very long, sustained, dedicated campaign. Edit: or series of campaigns. See the Dentons document, see Press for Change, Endocrine Soc/WPATH, Stonewall, Beaumont Society, etc.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 17/02/2026 08:41

guinnessguzzler · 17/02/2026 08:13

It's so obviously a symptom, and in many cases seems very closely linked to / an expression of narcissistic personality disorder. How on earth have we got to the point where we can't say that and supposed specialists and experts can't even see it?

This, in spades. Some of these people are genuinely mentally ill and have come to believe that their distorted view of themselves and the world is the true one. Others are manipulative and just enjoy forcing other people to go along with their nonsense by threatening all sorts if they don't. In both cases we should be saying no. How it's come to the present state of affairs instead is absolutely baffling to me. So much collateral damage.

What a tragedy for the surviving members of his family to lose their loved ones to this violent narcissist in this way. RIP.

ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:39

Meanwhile, the Guardian has got tight lipped. This is all they have to say on the Tumbler Ridge shooter in most recemt article.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/15/canada-support-tumbler-ridge-school-shooting

Rhode Island - Another crossdressing male mass shooter
ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:36

fromorbit · 17/02/2026 08:29

We need to up our game.

It is clear the the genderists are losing to some degree. They are going to become even MORE violent.

Great post I just saw

Christian Heiens 🏛

Many of you have no idea just how common unspeakably evil things are about to become.

This movement is well on the road to losing everything. Public opinion has firmly turned against them, even though they were subjected to a decade’s worth of relentless institutional propaganda that was intended to normalize this bizarre, unnatural, and self-destructive fetish.

The trans activist class is slowly learning they will never convince people that men can become women. They will never be accepted as a woman. They will never BE a woman. No one is ever going to reorder society and nature itself just to satisfy their sexual fantasies.

Having so throughly lost the debate, the political opportunists who leveraged this movement for nothing more than the power it provided will eventually learn the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. They’ll begin to back off and find a new fake moral cause to rally behind as they always do.

The normies who got into it because it had become a social contagion will inevitably find something else to latch on to. There’s always a new fad out there that you can follow to signal you’re a “good person”. They lose nothing except for changing their pronouns and Discord tags.

But for the true believers, both in the political class and the normies who fully bought in, there is no going back. If the movement they had staked their very identity upon dies, a significant portion of them will choose to take others down with them.

If you’re under the age of like 40, you have been waiting for this. You know exactly what’s happening because you’ve interacted with these people before either in person or online. How could you avoid them? They invaded your hobbies, your workplace, your business, and your online communities and demanded total affirmation and celebration for being freakshows.

And when you didn’t give it to them, how did they respond?

Now society itself is refusing to give it to them, and they will respond exactly the way you always knew they would.
https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2023633094092173566

A concerning thought. Narc rage is dangerous.

fromorbit · 17/02/2026 08:29

We need to up our game.

It is clear the the genderists are losing to some degree. They are going to become even MORE violent.

Great post I just saw

Christian Heiens 🏛

Many of you have no idea just how common unspeakably evil things are about to become.

This movement is well on the road to losing everything. Public opinion has firmly turned against them, even though they were subjected to a decade’s worth of relentless institutional propaganda that was intended to normalize this bizarre, unnatural, and self-destructive fetish.

The trans activist class is slowly learning they will never convince people that men can become women. They will never be accepted as a woman. They will never BE a woman. No one is ever going to reorder society and nature itself just to satisfy their sexual fantasies.

Having so throughly lost the debate, the political opportunists who leveraged this movement for nothing more than the power it provided will eventually learn the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. They’ll begin to back off and find a new fake moral cause to rally behind as they always do.

The normies who got into it because it had become a social contagion will inevitably find something else to latch on to. There’s always a new fad out there that you can follow to signal you’re a “good person”. They lose nothing except for changing their pronouns and Discord tags.

But for the true believers, both in the political class and the normies who fully bought in, there is no going back. If the movement they had staked their very identity upon dies, a significant portion of them will choose to take others down with them.

If you’re under the age of like 40, you have been waiting for this. You know exactly what’s happening because you’ve interacted with these people before either in person or online. How could you avoid them? They invaded your hobbies, your workplace, your business, and your online communities and demanded total affirmation and celebration for being freakshows.

And when you didn’t give it to them, how did they respond?

Now society itself is refusing to give it to them, and they will respond exactly the way you always knew they would.
https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2023633094092173566

Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) on X

Many of you have no idea just how common unspeakably evil things are about to become. This movement is well on the road to losing everything. Public opinion has firmly turned against them, even though they were subjected to a decade’s worth of relentl...

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2023633094092173566

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ArabellaScott · 17/02/2026 08:23

People on X calling him a 'Groyper' and saying he wasn't really trans.

What makes him 'not trans', I wonder.

fromorbit · 17/02/2026 08:21

nauticant · 17/02/2026 06:06

https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2023182721066176610

However, there's also pro-Trump stuff on his account so I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes the story.

Yeah looks like he was right wing so I imagine a lot of the left gender people will suddenly think misgendering is fine.

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guinnessguzzler · 17/02/2026 08:13

It's so obviously a symptom, and in many cases seems very closely linked to / an expression of narcissistic personality disorder. How on earth have we got to the point where we can't say that and supposed specialists and experts can't even see it?

AnSolas · 17/02/2026 08:07

Indeed AMansAManForAllThat

The Canadian State is a self ID state with an "conversion therapy" ban on MH support which looks at underlying issues
CBC.ca and some press are still using she/woman when discussing him.
Reuters is a massive disappointment in choosing to report that way
RCMP media notices have used suspect

NeelyOHara · 17/02/2026 07:52

AMansAManForAllThat · 17/02/2026 07:44

The Mail usually uses correct/original pronouns. It’s the Canadian press, Guardian and BBC we want to see shifting.

What scum that man was. His poor family.

Yeah, the Mail aren’t the problem with regards to this shit.

AMansAManForAllThat · 17/02/2026 07:44

The Mail usually uses correct/original pronouns. It’s the Canadian press, Guardian and BBC we want to see shifting.

What scum that man was. His poor family.

BiologicalRobot · 17/02/2026 07:40

56‑year‑old Robert Dorgan, who also used the name Roberta Esposito

Nice to finally see it written this way.

Reading the link above it seems he had beef with FIL and got him charged, then had beef with MIL and got her charged so FIL said fuck off out of my house and DW said I want a divorce because you are causing too much trouble for my family... so he killed her and one of his own children. Doesn't that just scream out unstable and mentally ill, even before you get to the transgender bit??
the gunman shot and killed his wife and opened fire on his children before turning the gun on himself.

Might not be PC but I'm glad he's dead.

andIsaid · 17/02/2026 07:29

And we have to welcome them into the loo...