The February 10, 2026 shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history, left nine people dead and about 25 injured. Police identified the suspect as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who was male but identified as female after beginning a transition about six years earlier. Authorities reportedly had prior contacts with the home related to mental health concerns and had previously seized and later returned firearms.
An increasing number of high-profile attacks and plots have likewise involved transgender or nonbinary perpetrators. In Minneapolis, 23-year-old Robin Westman, born Robert Westman, carried out the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. Westman’s driver’s license and a court-approved name change reflected a female identity.
In January 2024, a shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa, left two victims dead, in addition to the perpetrator. The shooter, Dylan Butler, reportedly identified as gender-fluid or nonbinary on social media. On March 27, 2023, Aiden Hale, a transgender former student, carried out the attack at The Covenant School in Nashville.
In 2022, Anderson Lee Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary, carried out the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs. Additional cases include the 2018 Rite Aid distribution center shooting in Aberdeen, Maryland, carried out by Snochia Moseley, who was transitioning from female to male, and the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting involving Alec McKinney, a transgender boy.
Beyond single-incident shootings, there is a broader pattern of violence by transgender individuals, as well as by what is commonly referred to as “Trantifa,” a term combining “trans” and “Antifa” to describe an informal grouping of transgender activists or far-left activists aligned with militant anti-fascist or anarchist ideology.
One example is the “Zizian” group led by Jack “Ziz” LaSota, whose members have been connected to multiple killings and arrests in 2025. Another case involved a prevented workplace mass-shooting plot in Oregon involving Elizabeth Ballesteros West, whom federal prosecutors charged with making threats across state lines. An FBI search of her residence uncovered a large cache of weapons.
The trans-related shooting that most affected conservatives was the assassination of Charlie Kirk. According to eyewitness accounts and video footage from the September 10 event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, the dialogue immediately preceding the shooting was as follows:
Hunter Kozak: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”
Charlie Kirk: “Too many.”
Hunter Kozak: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
Charlie Kirk: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”
The shot was fired immediately after this last question, before Kozak could respond or Kirk could continue speaking.
Tyler James Robinson, 22, was charged with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. According to law enforcement, investigators recovered bullet casings engraved with transgender-themed slogans, including phrases associated with Antifa rhetoric.
Robinson was living with and in a romantic relationship with a transgender partner at the time of the shooting. His hostility toward Kirk was connected in part to Kirk’s public positions on transgender issues, which Robinson viewed as hateful.
Kirk never expressed hatred toward anyone and often said that we are all sinners who can be forgiven in the eyes of God. He held to biblical truths, hating the sin but not the sinner. On multiple episodes of The Charlie Kirk Show, including in June 2024 and during his 2025 campus tours, Kirk argued that the blurring of gender lines represented what he called a rebellion against God’s created order.
He cited Deuteronomy 22:5 to argue that men dressing as women is an abomination, applying the verse to modern drag performances and transgender identity. Kirk repeatedly stated that “gay sex is a sin,” citing Leviticus 18:22.
In June 2024, Kirk used these verses to rebut Christian influencers, including YouTuber Ms. Rachel, who argued that “loving thy neighbor” implies support for Pride Month. Kirk responded that true love involves telling people that sinful behavior is an abomination in the eyes of God.
The problem with the trans movement and its liberal supporters, from this perspective, is that they consider stating what many Christians view as obvious realities, such as that there are only men and women, to be an attack. They consider the Christian position hateful, even though figures such as Charlie Kirk and Father Mike Schmitz articulated the biblical position: that God loves everyone, that everyone is welcome in God’s house, and yet that homosexual behavior is a sin. Transgender identity is a delusion, and forcing others to affirm that belief is seen as a violation of the First Amendment. Christians maintain that every person is loved by God and that all of us are broken and flawed.
For holding these beliefs, Charlie Kirk was killed, and many transgender activists and liberal supporters now openly express hostility toward Christians, often disrupting public speaking events or harassing Christians who preach in public.
The Don Lemon church assault was reportedly tied to immigration enforcement, but it was carried out by the same demographic that frequently opposes Christians for their stance on gender ideology and the unborn child’s right to life.
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