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?

In fact it's giving the most aggressive of them the 'excuse' they need to punish society or family for refusing to go along with their delusion. It feeds the victim complex and makes them feel justified in striking out at others.

Andy Ngo has some additional information on the Rhode Island murderer:

https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-rhode-island-trans-shooters-posts-show-years-of-obsessive-humiliation-of-his-ex-wife

Christ.

"No history" might not be all that meaningful. There are lots of legal types of rifles and shotguns that have never been registered because they were around before the registration system, and it was a major faff to get it done and someone didn't want to bother, or they were off in a closet somewhere and not really used.

What strikes me is that the defence seems to be that someone like this can't be "really trans" because his politics are wrong.

And I wonder, does this seem logical to the sort of person who thinks being gay has politics attached to it? Or that race does?

Thanks @UtopiaPlanitia with all that content it would be difficult for anyone to deny this man is actually trans. 10 years since transition, expecting others to use she / her pronouns, wearing inappropriate 'female-coded' clothes to his son's graduation, clearly identifying as part of the community on social media, by any trans definition or measure, this bloke was a woman. He doesn't even need Stonewall's giant umbrella to squeeze in, he fits just fine with a pretty standard definition. Of course one trans murderer doesn't mean all trans people are a risk. But the patterns are becoming clear and in this case it is so obvious that trans was part of his serious mental health problems / personality disorder, just like it was with the Canadian shooting last week, the bloke in the Borders who kidnapped that school girl, that man who raped a girl in the supermarket toilets in Fife, our good friend Isla Bryson, and, the list goes on. And the absolute fuckwits in the progressive left press are determined to avoid sharing all these details because they know what it shows. I know they have complete idiots working at the Guardian these days but even they can see it. I mean, if you're not concerned, why not share the full information? Why not correctly gender him as 'she' instead of avoiding pronouns as the BBC did? Not all gay people are lovely, some are even murderers, but that doesn't stop us agreeing (in law at least, I know there is still work to do!) they should be treated with dignity and respect and have all the same rights as straight people. So why would it be different with trans people, they're just part of the same long list of letters? What's the problem, for the 'progressive' left, with being clear that this killer was a woman? Well, it's because the more of this shit we see the more obvious it is that this is all to do with mental health, fetishism, pornography and personality disorders and affirming people going through this is going to cause harm. And the harm will most likely follow the usual pattern such that for the blokes the harm will sit with others and for the women the harm will be to themselves. That is a disgrace, and every single person involved in, and supporting, this bullshit should be utterly ashamed of themselves. I get that people want to be kind, but none of this is kind, or right.

Thanks I see some Canadan firearm are lawful without it being registered.

My understanding is unregistered is of itself would be a criminal offence in the UK for the owner. Also that under UK the killer would be in illegal possession of a "stolen" firearm as the licence is specific to the individual.

I googled and seen that they passed one Act force registration the another to allow unregistered "long guns(?)". So the devil will be in the detail the update suggest that the prior removal of the guns was a "search of the home type" as seized is used both times rather than surrendered.

https://rcmp.ca/en/bc/tumbler-ridge/news/2026/02/4350292
We have prioritized the analysis of
• the two firearms (long gun and a rifle that had been modified) seized from the school
and
• two firearms, including a shotgun, seized among a number of other firearms, at the residence.

The shotgun is believed to be involved the homicides at the home and has never been previously seized by police.

Our investigation has also determined the main firearm believed to be used in the mass shooting at the school has never been seized by the and its origin is unknown.

Efforts continue to identify the owners and source of all other firearms.

10years since transition, expecting others to use she / her pronouns, wearing inappropriate 'female-coded' clothes to his son's graduation, clearly identifying as part of the community on social media, by any trans definition or measure, this bloke was a woman.

I think this is why the BBC and others are fighting so shy about details and especially photos. When such perpetrators are clearly troubled adolescents, there’s a degree of sympathy or at least plausible explanation (“they were let down”)even for the most deranged killer, if misplaced. With this person there can be none and it clearly exposes the horrible, violent aspect of the fantasy cult.

His poor wife. I wonder if she was told to be kind and stay with him.

Ms Goncalves said at least three bystanders were able to contain Dorgan, who reached for a second gun and shot themselves.

This jumped out at me from Sky News. They are evidently trying hard not to use himself/ herself, and have ended up implying he was somehow plural.

The coverage is damning.

Rhode Island Rink Horror: 10 Chilling Posts Of Trans Shooter Resurface Before Deadly Rampage
Robert Dorgan's online messages reveal disturbing mindset as daughter confirms long-standing mental health struggles
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rhode-island-ice-rink-shooting-1779578

From the reporting, certainly not by her family, although that didn't stop them paying the cost for his behaviour.

But society in general certainly lacks the lens to understand his sexualised, 'woman face' as abusive or offensive.

The police chief said his trans status was irrelevant,

But in his posts, he says he takes testosterone and oestrogen, he says misgendering other trans people makes him go berserk. And his woman hatred fairly drips from all his posts.

Yes, a violent misogynist will find some way of being a violent misogynist, but the issue with this way, is that the public legitimacy of being trans just gives him endless fodder for taking offence and being angry at women.

It's a never-ending supply of being fed reasons to be full of rage.

So yes, it is bloody relevant.

Before this took off, any man claiming he's a better woman than his wife and that she gets angry when he out does her at womanhood with high heels and bikinis, would be sectioned.

This ideology creates madness, and then welcomes it as virtue.

"Experts caution against jumping to broad conclusions, noting the shooting appears to have been a deeply personal and family-related incident."

'family related'. As though there might be some kind of justification for their deaths.

Except nobody can say that the usual refrain - 'He was such a lovely man, we were so surprised, it came out of nowhere, he just lost it' - applies here.

Also, about him being pre-op? Did it confirm it was bottom surgery?

Because his father-in-law wanted to throw him out, and in a couple of photos he's evidently had chest implants. Which, as it is very indicative of a fetish, might well piss off your wife's father.

@nicepotoftea posted a quotation yesterday which said:

"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.”

Do implants count as "gender reassignment surgery"? I though that phrase generally referred to genital surgery.

Yes that's bloody infuriating. Family dispute, family related.

He's a drunk crazed, unstable, sex obsessed misogynist.

Hardly disputable.

I think it's a coverall for any kind of surgery.

It's a smoke screen

The police chief said his trans status was irrelevant

That needs further explanation, given that according to the public record his claim to be a woman was a key part of the breakdown of his relationship with his wife and family.

I think there is a post on X where he talks about his bottom surgery and he also talked about how surgery was funded.

According to 10WJAR (part of NBC, I gather) "Dorgan posted in 2017 he got a sex change".

I'd say his trans status was very relevant to this case.
Nazi tattoo? Nazi- an accusation usually thrown at terfs?

PS- where are all the usual interruptarons on threads like these?
(Conspicuous by their absence)

Every word of this. Thanks, @Datun.

Given what's coming out about this man now, how could any ethical practitioner have given him the green light for that particularly brutal and irreversible surgery? He has clearly been a ticking time bomb for a long time. If he has been amongst the many men who've found the surgery has not magically solved all their problems in life, but on the contrary given them a whole lot more (chronic pain, daily dilation required, urinary problems, few people willing to have sex with him, sex if he can get it no longer providing any orgasm, etc etc), it would likely have made him even more angry and increased the risk of violence.

This is what happens when society loses 'judgement and shame' and embarks on 'accept people for who they are'.

No thank you.