In the aftermath of a Canadian mass shooting that left at least nine people dead and 25 wounded, police have been vigilant in not misgendering the 18-year-old transgender shooter who has been named as the killer who took his own life.

Police initially said in an active shooter alert that the suspect was a “female in a dress with brown hair.”

But as panic gave way to propriety, RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd called Jesse Van Rootselaar — who also reportedly went by the name Jesse Strang — a “deceased gunperson,” as shown in a videopostedto X.

🚨 BREAKING: 10 people are dead, 25 injured after a “woman wearing a dress” opened fire on a school in British Columbia, Canada

Local police are referring to the shooter as a “gunperson.”

Yeah, we all know this is yet another trans mass shooter.pic.twitter.com/McA9C0nmcc

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor)February 11, 2026

The language, as much as the atrocity, provoked a strong reaction.

“When the trans cult erases women they call them ‘birthing persons’ When the trans cult hides that a trans person just killed kids they call him a ‘gunperson,” aposton X from an account named Doomherald said.

Meanwhile, aposternamed Laurence Fox erupted, writing, “What the bejesus is wrong with these retards? So glued and binded to the child mutilation cult that the deranged, murderous deviant with a body stocked full of hormones which don’t belong can’t even be correctly gendered?”

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