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Rhode Island hockey shooter ID’d as Robert Dorgan, who went by female name
The New York Post ^ | 02/16/2026 | Catlin McCormack

Posted on 02/16/2026 8:05:47 PM PST by thegagline

Police identified the gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon as Robert Dorgan and revealed he went by a female name.

The 56-year-old father, who shot family members and a family friend before he turned the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink, used the alias Roberta Esposito, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said during a press conference Monday night.

We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name, the birth name was Robert Dorgan,” Goncalves said.

“We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito.”

Dorgan is the father of a North Providence High School senior who was competing in the hockey tournament, local station WPRI reported.

The suspected shooter sat near the back of the stands on the home team’s side during the game before he moved to the front and opened fire at four family members and one family friend, the outlet reported.

The student’s mother and sibling were among the dead, multiple sources told the outlet. The mother of Dorgan’s child died inside Lynch Arena, while the sibling died at the hospital, according to the sources.

Three victims are still in critical condition as of Monday night. **/

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: female; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; lgbt; lgbtq; looney; male; mentalillness; pawtucket; rhodeisland; robertdorgan; transgender; transmassshooting; transpsycho
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There are three genders: Male, female, and looney.

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1 posted on 02/16/2026 8:05:47 PM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Is the Post misgendering the killer? Now, he’s a dude? Any other time they would label this guy as a she.


2 posted on 02/16/2026 8:10:03 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: thegagline

Nothing surprises me anymore. Where are these freaks hatched?


3 posted on 02/16/2026 8:12:30 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

They do that on purpose. The more you have to think about it the less you can think about everything else. One day a man is a man dressed as a woman, while on the same day a different man is actually a woman who was once a man. Gender assigned at birth rather than gender assigned at conception. Gender assigned at conception is impossible for a clump of cells. It’s all a distraction.


4 posted on 02/16/2026 8:16:02 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: crusty old prospector

Why on earth did we close down all the mental institutions! I think it’s time to build new ones on a massive scale. We will need at lease 500 huge ones in every blue state and one small one in red states for visiting blue staters.


5 posted on 02/16/2026 8:16:39 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: thegagline

Now that is creepy.

Screwed up. When are we going to start calling people insane again?

Gender dysphoria is insane. Frankly homosexuality is insane. But we’re not allowed to speak of insanity, much less these specific issues, are we?


6 posted on 02/16/2026 8:17:23 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: thegagline

Sammy Hagar?


7 posted on 02/16/2026 8:18:02 PM PST by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He looks like Sammy Hagar. He can’t drive 55.


8 posted on 02/16/2026 8:18:14 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: TonyM

GMTA.

But, it doesn’t really matter, when we declare nothing is insane. Except maybe thinking conservatively.


9 posted on 02/16/2026 8:19:00 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: pissant

Dang. 12 seconds.


10 posted on 02/16/2026 8:19:06 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

11 posted on 02/16/2026 8:20:56 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: crusty old prospector

Ma’am I Am
(Hat tip to Dr. Seuss)

I see your hair. It is a wig.
Your Adam’s apple still looks big.
You are a man, and that is clear.
I do not see a woman here.
I must admit, it’s rather odd
To hear you say you’re now a broad.
You have no uterus, so no:
You cannot bleed from down below.
I do not like your padded bra!
You should not use the women’s spa!
You tell me you had surgery;
Your pronouns still are “him” and “he.”
Your chromosomes are X and Y.
That means you’ll always be a guy.
You gave yourself a girly name.
That does not mean you’re now a dame.
A surgeon chopped your eggs and ham?
I still won’t call you Ma’am I Am.


12 posted on 02/16/2026 8:23:45 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: thegagline

Daughter accurately told the press “HE had mental health issues”.


13 posted on 02/16/2026 8:31:43 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: rlmorel
Seuss's work for children has been criticized for unconscious racist themes. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization that owns the rights to the books, films, TV shows, stage productions, exhibitions, digital media, licensed merchandise, and other strategic partnerships, announced on March 2, 2021, that it would stop publishing and licensing six books. The publications include And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937), If I Ran the Zoo (1950), McElligot's Pool (1947), On Beyond Zebra! (1955), Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953) and The Cat's Quizzer (1976). According to the organization, the books "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong" and are no longer being published.

It looks like Dr. Seuss needed to get his mind right. From Wiki.

14 posted on 02/16/2026 8:32:18 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: rlmorel; Carriage Hill; wattojawa

ROFLMAO!

Superb.


15 posted on 02/16/2026 8:33:43 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: rlmorel

Bravo!👏👏👏

CC


16 posted on 02/16/2026 8:33:46 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: thegagline
“We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito.”

Esposito? Little Husband?

That is queer.

17 posted on 02/16/2026 8:35:09 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: crusty old prospector

HA!


18 posted on 02/16/2026 8:36:10 PM PST by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: rlmorel

Good work!


19 posted on 02/16/2026 8:37:16 PM PST by Westbrook (democRATs are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: crusty old prospector
It went beyond not publishing the books. They have tried to get them banned from re-selling.

Didn't work because when you own something you can sell it.

But they did try.

Even got Amazon and eBay to go along with it for a bit.

20 posted on 02/16/2026 8:38:03 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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