Posted on 02/13/2026 1:37:13 AM PST by RandFan
The transgender teenager responsible for Canada’s worst school shooting in nearly 40 years struggled with his physical appearance and was fixated with guns and drugs.
Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old from the remote town of Tumbler Ridge who was born a male, wrote online about his 6ft frame and his desire to be a “petite” woman.
He shot dead his mother, Jennifer Strang, and his 11-year-old stepbrother on Tuesday afternoon before walking to his former school 10 minutes away and opening fire on pupils and staff, killing eight before taking his own life.
Police initially described the shooter as a “gunperson” and a “female in a dress”. They later revealed that Van Rootselaar had begun transitioning at the age of 12 and publicly identified as female.
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Seems like the answer here...is to drug (to a extreme level) the guy up enough to believe he was 4’9”.
Its that simple.
And I wanted to be a suave ladies man. But I pulled the “nerdy Irish-Catholic kid from the midwest” card instead. You gotta play the cards you’re dealt.
CC
He needed a psychiatrist, better parents, and God. Totally messed up guy.
“One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the one that mother gives you don’t anything at all...”
He was estranged from his father.
Sons tend to become feminine when raised by a strong dominant mother. If the mother is masculine, the son’s often develop into the compliment.
Ever notice that if you are driving a car and someone sits in the passenger seat telling you when to turn, when to brake, and thinks for you, it eventually becomes very difficult to think for yourself and later follow the same route when you are alone.
This happens as when the father is gone, the mother forms a co-dependency with the developing child rather than with a spouse. A developing soul needs some freedom to develop their own identity naturally, rather than being molded into the compliment of a strong co-dependent mother.
He didn’t like his big feet. Kind of toxic when dudes do not want be dudes.
Affirmation Kill, we need to outlaw affirmation from operations to pronouns....
That’s a polite way of saying he was a nutjob
Sad isnt it
There needs to be an early intervention program
Some pills make you small
And the ones mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
I was Wedding Coordinator at a 5-star resort in Hawaii in the early ‘90s. Internet was sketchy, most clients were from Europe or mainland USA, so all arrangements were made via phone.
One bride wanted to be like Audrey Hepburn. Kept insisting that she wanted a nosegay. (WHY do I remember that? Weird.) We assumed she was a petite brunette.
Anyhow, when she finally showed up she was a big fat blonde chick. She wanted to be petite, but she didn’t shoot anybody.
Pretty much you are right.
So the 6 foot transvestite was aware he was insane to begin with.
Anyone associated with LGBTWRSTUVWXYZ freak show should be institutionalized.
Why didn’t he just identify as petite?
He could look into a mirror and “see” a woman, just not a petite woman?
Who thinks transgenderism isn’t a severe brain disorder? The majority of mass murderers have that disorder. Bring back mental asylums.
Too much mom + not enough dad = homosexual male.

ROTFL. Sissy boy wanted to be cuddly. What a maggot.
It is unfortunate that his parents supported his insanity. Maybe they, he and those he murdered would still be alive if they (his parents) had only sought treatment for him...and for themselves.
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