Yesterday, a person in Tumbler Ridge, BC went into the high school and shot a large number of people, killing 6 at the school, and injuring dozens more. This is after they had shot and killed two family members in their home.
Today, we learned that the shooter was a young transgender woman who had dropped out of high school a few years ago. Predictably, our friends over at The Western Standard jumped on this to argue that somehow transgender identity is therefore intrinsically dangerous. (I won't link to material I consider overt hate literature - a series of screen copies will be provided at the end of this which will contain the offending column).
The writer, Christopher Oldcorn, has been carrying the "anti-transgender banner" for Western Standard since at least 2022, possibly earlier. His working thesis here seems to be "well, because the shooter was transgender, clearly gender affirming care doesn't work", or something to that effect.
