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?

Iirc that finding in relation to chemical castration of sex offenders.

Ah! Thank you. I feel like I read that there was something about post-surgery too, but unless someone can find the evidence for that I’m happy to be corrected.

There certainly seems to be a high crossover rate between men who are violent and sexually abusive/deviant and the willingness to start cross sex identifying: wearing make-up and women's clothing etc.

I would not take a bet on shitposting as being anyway truthful 💅

Coercion and non consensuality seem the common theme across most fetish/paraphilias.

Predators will seek maximum opportunity to exploit the most vulnerable.

Most predators are men.
Most vulnerable are women (and/or children).

If the former can identify as the latter - maximum access and opportunity.

Seems fairly logical.

The only barrier really is social taboo - fetishists have sexualised that in humiliation and sissification kink, while simultaneously eroding the taboo.

The T has been the cuckoo in the nest of LGB organisations. I watched it in a LGB organisation i worked at, staffing a DV Helpline. Gradually all the new staff were TRAs, as the older staff left, probably because they were made to feel they didn't properly understand the "importance" of pronouns and the necessity of "trans" camps and holidays for children . All conversations, training and publicity gradually switched from sexuality to gender. more money was spent advocating free wigs and makeup for sex offending men in prison than paying Helpline staff. Of course i had to leave,regarded as old fashioned, bigoted and ignorant because i wasn't happy with all these changes. The final straw was a volunteer male who gradually adopted a feminine costume, insisting he was now she, who followed me into the women's toilets when everyone else had left the building at the end of a weekend shift, and who sat in the next cubicle listening to me peeing - whatever he was doing (!) was nothing to do with him just wanting to pee. It was very intimidating, so i left. I knew better than to expect anyone in the organisation to support me. A real woman. Who had wanted to help lesbians, gay men and bisexual people who were being abused. The cuckoo doesn't just take over the nest it has stolen, it kicks out the birds who build it and kills their chicks.

Oh my god, Bertie. I'm so fuckin sorry.

As far as I can tell this man had had "bottom surgery" so presumably would qualify as a "woman" even to more circumspect trans allies who have concepts of real and not real "transpeople". Yet I can see no references to the shooter being a woman anywhere, in total contrast to Tumbler Ridge.

I have done a quick trawl. US sites are clearly saying "gunman" and "father" and referring to him as he. BBC News US front page doesn't mention the incident at all right now. Guardian: likewise nothing. Sky News: "the suspect", no pronoun. The Times: "gunman". Canadian media: "the shooter" or "the suspect", no pronoun.

https://x.com/DonkeyQuixotic/status/2023713635273515149?s=20

Huh. Can't find anything on the website of ZEIT Online in Germany either.

But that is maybe because with their single article on the Canadian school shooter last week, they got tons of protest from the commentariat about their way to describe the murderer (copy paste of Canadian police speak). Literally 50% of comments were "WTF?", because people obviously had the same doubts as the crowd on here, and had done their research.

They did publish most of the comments but apparently got cold feet and moderated some of the more directly worded the next day. Maybe the resident TRAs had reported those...🙄

That's awful Bertie. Sadly, it won't even make a dent to the supine, grovelling allies they would twist it and make it all your fault for not being submissive and craven like them, they are utterly contemptible.

And there's at least one UK doctor amongst them.

@Bertiebiscuit I'm so sorry that happened to you

Ref the media, The Times is on it as are the comments: https://www.thetimes.com/article/61d58c61-e06a-4226-9054-c30910d9d4c2?shareToken=e52ae7eff55de74e7f32c94f4fa3a5d6

Still nothing on the BBC as far as I can see. Bizarre!

The usual suspects (BBC, ITV etc) refusing to cover the story about the man doing a drag tribute act to Dog the Bounty Hunter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/rhode-island-ice-rink-shooting-pawtucket

As far as I can see only limited reporting in the Guardian, despite a large North American readership.

And in the Guardian still no pronouns or any indication of the sex/"gender" of the "suspect".

Yes 'the suspect' and 'the attacker'.

They were all over it with she/her/victim in the other incident.

I mean, if UK news sources covered every shooting in the US they'd have room for nothing else. Three dead is pretty much a daily occurrence.

Police identify suspect in Rhode Island ice rink shooting - BBC News

Three dead more injured at a school hockey match is far from common even in America

I don't think there is a single pronoun in that whole article!

There are, but only in reference to the police chief and witnesses.

Ah yes, missed that!

"It appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute,"

I've seen this kind of reporting in a couple of places today. Implication seems to be that the family were not affirming enough.

I’ve just read about this on Reddit where they are tying themselves up in knots over it.

What gets me is that he was clearly seriously mentally unstable yet I wonder if ‘being trans’ stopped him from being helped/stopped. And he had go so far as to have surgery. I thought you had to go through quite a serious amount of assessments for that.