To think the sex of suspects should always be properly reported for violent or sexual crimes, the mass killer in Canada was male. That's important to know.

[SingleSexSpacesInSchools]

"Suspect in Canada shooting is identified as an 18-year-old with history of police visits to her home"

Is incorect. Women don't tend to go on mass killing sprees. Or rape many people.

https://apnews.com/article/canada-school-shooting-british-columbia-e577eb5689d1af42f6077a56368d4170

The Telegraph reports today that the shooter had a younger sister and brother, both of whom attended the school he was shooting.

Pretending they don't is also dangerously untrue, look up Brenda Ann Spencer, there was another too and look up female serial killers there's a few there too. Whilst men certainly commit these crimes significantly more, women sometimes certainly do go on killing sprees too.

luckily, I never said they didn't. Exceptions that prove the rule just reinforces my position.

Sometimes they do but its so unusual and rare that it makes it incredible and 'unheard' of when it happens

@Terfymcnamechange I did a search before posting and found a female brain damaged by a male in what should have been a female only game is just "sports".

Men commit between 95% and 98% of them, depending on which particular type of mass killings you're looking at.

Even at the most woman- heavy interpretation, that's one female killer for every twenty male killers.

In fact going back to reporting and analysis and targeted interventions.

If females began killing by mass shooting at a higher rate than previously recorded it would be essential to seek to understand the reasons for this as it would indicate a social change.

The last thing any society would want is equal numbers of male and female mass killers.

This is whataboutery.

Sometimes women murder. It does not follow that men who claim to be women should be reported as women when they murder.

Reporting should be factual.

I'll be honest, it just annoys me that someone may see the headline or read the article and think "oh a woman did that." The reality is that many people don't know what "transitioning to a woman" means or what AMAB means. They just see the word "woman" and they think biological female.

Words matter. Truth matters. We should be very clear in saying this crime was committed by a male.

so not only do we have male female discrepancies with the killers description but now a statement from the father who says that they are using a name that his son DID NOT go by. that he goes by the name of Jesse Strang.
although the reported says "her" he the father says "him"

Absolutely mental. Just mental.

calling a male killer she after his father calls him he.

all to what, gloss over the obvious mental health co morbidities with these trans identified killers?

She was trans and it has nothing to do with any reason she did the crime. So rage baiting.

You don’t think a disconnection with reality could have anything to do with this then? Nothing?

He was male. A male committed this crime. Don't put his violence on women, it's not ours.

Neither you, nor the rest of us, have any idea why he committed the crime.

It’s not rage baiting. It’s people explaining why the stats are being skewed because women are taking the hit for crimes totally unrelated to them. Men need to be counted as men, regardless of which guise they are choosing to be in. Let’s be honest, the trans lobby needs to stand up and be counted for pressurising and perpetuating the myth than somehow men can morph into the opposite sex. Stop shifting the blame to women.

He was male.

Unless you have information you should be turning over to the Canadian police you cant claim his MH or part there of was not a reason why he chose to kill all his victims

It is not rage baiting to highlight that the perpetrator of this crime was biologically male. And as men overwhelmingly commit crimes of this nature it is important that the statistics are accurate. Reporting this as a female crime would be factually wrong.

He was male.

Why do you think this crime should be incorrectly attributed to a woman?

Women are much, much less likely to commit these kinds of crimes compared to men. Why do you want the data to be distorted to deflect from this?

I think male rage and violence has everything to do with it.

@Bones101 if he had escaped the school as a BC resident I want and expect the RCMP to give an accurate description.
Definitely shouldn’t be counted as a female crime. It’s male violence against women and children.
Big question, how does someone this unstable access firearms? Someone was complicit.

Completely agree.

Hearing that Canadian shooter was female, without anything further to give context, pissed me off so much.

Those poor people and then that.

Exactly this.
This is what I said to my daughter who couldn't see the problem.

The PROBLEM is the stats bear out that MEN overwhelmingly are shooters NOT women.

So sick of this woke shit.
Historically I have always been very pro trans/live and let live.

But this encroachment on the female sex, out spaces has got my back up so much.

Once there is a licence in the house its safe to assume that anyone with access to the house can access it.

In the end its a civil liberty issue and a medical data issue. If person A qualifies under the law why should the State be allowed to restrict based on living with person B when in theory the State cant tell person A about person Bs MH. Thats a limited situational Guns Rights talking point.

Personal responsibility comes into play but in most (not all) cases the family member for whatever reason has not gotten to the O-fuck-he-may-not-just-kill-himself-but-also-others level of understanding.

This is so true.

I often get people telling me there is going to be snow or some other treacherous weather because they've seen a headline. If they'd actually read the article they'd find the snow was actually predicted to only be on high ground in Scotland, but they can't see past the headline.

I’d go one step further.

if someone is trans identified, that’s important to report as part of the story.