Rhode Island - Another crossdressing male mass shooter

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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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agreed.

'why were people so credulous? Why was there so little critical thinking applied?'

Narrative. Thought terminating cliches. 'No debate'. Proactive monstering of anyone who questioned the narratives ('probably racist'). Media and the arts pushing relentless messages about holy vulnerable marginalised people. Butterfly, my name is jazz, Desmond is Amazing (a stripping child?!). The Drag division of the Sex-industrial Complex. Diversion, manipulation, lobbying.

Lying, basically.

Thank you!

I note the canadian police are investigating the firearms used.

From the report it suggests 3 not 2 may have been involved
One was altered which I will guess was to add trigger speed but more likely more rounds or the barrel cut.
Another was an illegal one as the police are saying they have no history.

He's only being referred to as male this time because it's America, whereas the last one was Canadian which is completely captured. I'll wait for the reports in the BBC and Guardian and weep

He had also undergone surgery to have a hole in his groin which creates a poor facsimile of female genitals, so I also wonder what makes him "not trans." Hmmm, remind me again, isn't it bigoted, transphobic, TEFF logic and "licherally violence" to deny a trans persons identity?🤔

https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/1773324660819567094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1773324660819567094%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=

I read on x that his son was playing on the rink. Poor sod.

Yes, and also the forced teaming, if that's the right phrase, with the activists working for an end to discrimination against lesbians, gay men and bisexual people. No LGB without the T - why not? What have they got in common?

Once again, how could people not notice what was happening? We had the example in the 1970s and 80s of the paedophiles trying to worm their way into gay rights organisations and the forerunner of Liberty. Some people back then were so determined to get rid of all boundaries and taboos that they were totally unable to see how harmful it would have been to legitimise the sexual abuse of children. That's, of course, in addition to the people who actively wanted easier opportunities to abuse the vulnerable. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26352378

Absolutely. The piggybacking on the LGB was very deliberate, and well timed.

It is no accident that the T jumped into LGB organisations pushing the idea the T is a gay man.

But TRA sold the acceptance without exception. They cant then whine when men who see the opening take the opening.

In an era when women had and have to still adopt power suits in business yet these men (with no GD etc) get to throw on a "dress" and bully people into submission.

Whats not to like from their side.

Yes, this is true.

You see it on here, albeit watered down. If people on here could say what they actually wanted to say to some of our ploppers, it would take much less time for the mask to go, and the raging insults to start.

That's a direct result of the 10 year propaganda making places like Mumsnet HQ still think 'civil discourse' is anywhere near the goal of TRAs.

I've mentioned before about Gendertrender, a site run by a woman who had no such qualms.

And their version of a plopper would get instant, sweary, and extremely short shrift from her.

The resultant mask flinging was spectacular, and the rage visible from space. As were the threats. They were vitriolic. Until she just banned them.

this is a pattern that is being repeated everywhere.

That was his response to this post:

https://x.com/Melchizedek1972/status/1773317346418930074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1773324660819567094%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=

It would be highly inappropriate over the tragedy, but you do feel like posting the "Not Another One" meme, just because it happens now with such regularity despite the constant "trans people are victims" narrative.

When I saw this late last night it was immediately noticeable that the media had decided this one was a man in a skirt. They should be forced to justify how they decide when someone is a 'woman' and when just a bloke in lipstick. It seems based on how much they think they can get away with implying the shooter was driven to it by nasty right-wingers and gender critical feminists.

I was wondering why this particular fetish? Why so many men seem to have it.

But then I realised, it's probably not just this particular one. It's that this particular one now has the blanket of legitimacy to it and can be performed in public.

With a massive side order of virtue points, bullying and intimidation. I mean, it's like the best fetish evah.

Can you imagine how this one would have reacted if a woman had objected to him being in a women only space? And yet if women keep their heads down and don't complain about these men that's meant to be a sign that everything's fine, right?

It certainly proves that men who have had surgery are not 'completely harmless', as is often claimed.

There is some suggestion that if they already have a propensity toward violence they become more violent after the surgery, using objects to rape in place of the appendage they’ve had removed.

I don’t have the relevant data/articles to hand, but another reader might.