Eight people lie dead at the hands of a crazed eighteen-year-old. Most of the victims are teens, shot dead at their school. One was a female teacher. The shooter’s mother and step-brother were also victims. As The Federalist reported on Wednesday, that the shooter was “a mentally ill man cosplaying as a woman.”
Some press reports have carefully documented this fact.
However, many sources like The New York Times and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have decided to participate in a central fiction about who the shooter was.
RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald explained at a press conference shortly after the shooting, “So the suspect is identified as an eighteen-year-old female by the name of Jesse.” He also explained that police visited the man’s home “several times over the years” and “some of those calls were related to mental health issues.” McDonald was responding to a reporter’s question: “Were there any red flags regarding his mental health?”
Commissioner McDonald stated, “I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male, who, approximately … six years ago began to transition to female, and identified as female, both socially and publicly.” He also explained to the world that the RCMP will “identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media.”
In their reporting, The New York Times referred to the shooter as “Ms. Van Rootselaar.” They also parroted McDonald’s account that “Jesse Van Rootselaar, was biologically born male and began transitioning to female six years ago.” They also noted “the police would continue identifying her as a female” as did the Times throughout their story.
We must recognize that both agencies are deliberately participating in the deception that contributed to this horrific massacre. Sadly, many Christian leaders have done the same.
Here are the facts that must be spoken:
First, the shooter was not “born male.” He was male.
Second, the shooter was not “transitioning to female.” Female is a fixed biological reality, objectively defining half of humanity. One does not become female through effort, process or medical experimentation.
Lastly, no one is “trans.” It does not exist in nature. Even the American Psychiatric Association readily confesses “transgender” is not a medical or psychiatric diagnosis.
All people of goodwill and a love of truth must actively set ourselves free from the insidious and deeply consequential language games of gender ideology. It is pure ideological capture and nearly all elite professions that should know better are choosing to sustain its lies. Our impressionable children need to see something better in us.
The most powerful weapon against this deception is for every person to refuse to play along with this ideology. It is the most compassionate thing we can do.
Unfortunately, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and The New York Times have chosen to play along with the deception. The rest of us can and should choose differently. Doing so takes clear thinking, bold, truthful language and moral courage. The restoration of sanity demands this from us.