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It is a journalist’s duty to report the truth, yet so many news outlets covered themselves in shame by bowing and scraping to honor the “transgender identity” of the man who carried out one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history.

Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, was born a man and he died a man. He spent his last day on Earth killing his 39-year-old mother, his 11-year-old stepbrother, a 39-year-old teacher, three 12-year-old girls, and two boys, 12 and 13, before taking the coward’s way out and turning the gun on himself. He reportedly wounded about 25 others at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, and critically injured two more.

Initial reports on the shooting described Van Rootselaar as appearing female, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police erased all doubt Wednesday at a press conference.

“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,” Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said.

I understand the impulse to treat people with respect when they claim to identify as the gender opposite their sex. Many consider it common courtesy to refer to a person by preferred pronouns, rather than insisting on biological truth. In some circles, it is a faux pas—if not sacrilege—to state the naked truth that a man is still a man, regardless of what gender he claims to adopt.

But, if ever there were a situation where common courtesy need not apply, it would be here.

Do you really want to extend “common courtesy” to a school shooter? Do you really want to say, “I know he slaughtered children, and his own mother, but we’ve got to be nice and call him a girl, now”?

For crying out loud, let’s stop this insane charade.

The vast majority of mass shooters are male, so the initial news reports that the shooter was a woman immediately invited skepticism.

When the RCMP’s update clarified that the shooter was really a man dressed up as a woman, every journalist following the story learned the truth. There is no excuse, at that point, for calling the shooter a woman or using female pronouns for him.

Yet, outlet after outlet did it.

News Outlets Gaslight Readers

CNN “reported” that “the suspect is an 18-year-old woman.” The very next sentence? “She was born biologically male and transitioned about six years ago, police said.” CNN also referred to the shooter as “an 18-year-old female resident of the town.”

The New York Times used female pronouns for the shooter, stating that “she killed her mother and stepbrother before fatally shooting several others, and later herself.”

The Associated Press merely referred to the shooter using female pronouns, without even disclosing to readers that police identified him as male.

Reuters’s headline ran, “Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman as suspect in mass school shooting.” Reuters did acknowledge that the shooter had been “born male,” but not until the eleventh paragraph, and only after describing Van Rootselaar as a “woman” and using female pronouns for him throughout.

USA Today acknowledged the transgender identity in the second paragraph of the story, but still used female pronouns for the shooter throughout.

Why the Pervasive Bias in Favor of the Shooter’s ‘Identity?’

Why did news outlets do this?

First, Deputy Commissioner McDonald set the stage for it by saying that police would refer to the shooter as a woman because the shooter had presented himself that way. Apparently, accuracy about biological sex takes a backseat to political correctness, even when it means honoring the ravings of a mass murderer.

Second, the Associated Press Stylebook, which many outlets use as a benchmark for how to report the news, has taken an aggressively pro-transgender activist position.

The stylebook urges journalists to “identify people as transgender only when relevant, and use the name by which they live publicly.” It recommends avoiding “mention of a person’s gender transition or gender-affirmation surgery in news coverage” unless “it is central to the story.” Why? Because this might be “intrusive and insensitive.”

This guidance helps explain why the Associated Press appears to have considered the shooter’s transgender identity irrelevant enough to be excised from the coverage entirely. The AP, you see, didn’t want to be “insensitive” to Mr. Van Rootselaar.

Forgive me if I don’t care about being insensitive toward a mass murderer.

The AP Stylebook goes out of its way to silence dissent against transgender orthodoxy. While the “guidance” on transgender issues is steeped in transgender ideology, it flatly declares that journalists should “not use the term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity as an ideology.”

The Daily Signal appreciates the clarity of the AP Stylebook on matters such as spelling protester with an “er,” but we emphatically reject its “guidance” on issues like this where it takes a leftist partisan stance.

A Reckoning on Transgender Insanity

This horrific shooting comes shortly after a jury ordered doctors to pay $2 million to a detransitioner who regretted having her breasts removed. It comes after the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended against transgender surgeries for minors, and even said the data doesn’t support hormones for minors.

The tide is turning against transgender orthodoxy, and this moment should shame news outlets into reconsidering their near-religious devotion to it.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is likely when the clock strikes midnight on Friday, due to a lack of agreement with Democrats on funding the agency.

“We don’t have a solution yet,” Thune, R-S.D., told reporters outside the Senate floor Thursday afternoon. “The Democrats, at least at the moment … have no interest in funding the Department of Homeland Security.”

Thune said leadership had been seeking unanimous consent to pass yet another funding extension for the department, but Democrats would not provide the votes.

At the end of the week, funding from the current short-term stopgap funding extension will expire, leaving the Coast Guard, national disaster response teams, and cybersecurity infrastructure unfunded.

The budget reconciliation bill passed in July 2025 has already provided billions in funding for border security and deportation operations under DHS’ umbrella.

Democrats have demanded restrictions on immigration law enforcement officers in the wake of the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

The White House and Senate Republicans have engaged with Senate Democrats’ demands for concessions such as prohibiting mask-use and requiring judicial warrants for deportations.

“The White House made, I think, what was a good faith effort … to try to get to an answer here … that will allow the government to stay open, and that was rejected by Democrats today,” said Thune. 

“The idea of not even allowing us to have an extended amount of time to negotiate this suggests to me, at least, that there isn’t a high level of interest in actually solving this issue.”

Thune added that the White House had provided legislative text the night before to Democrats that attempted to address their concerns, but “so far they’re not getting any kind of response from Democrats, even allowing us to continue this and allow the government to stay open.”

The Senate will recess next week, but Thune says he has told senators to “be available to get back here if there’s some sort of a deal they strike.”

On an optimistic note, Thune added, “I’m encouraged to hear that they [Democrats] are actually going to put together … a counterproposal” for DHS funding.

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A partial government shutdown appears imminent as Democrats are standing firm and refusing to provide funding to the Department of Homeland Security.

There is only one day left to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the lone department awaiting appropriations from Congress through the rest of the fiscal year. The White House has attempted to negotiate but the proposal doesn’t seem to be enough for Democrats. 

The department encompasses TSA, FEMA, and ICE, whose deportation efforts are funded under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.  

The Senate Homeland Security Committee hosted the second DHS hearing of the week on Thursday morning. The White House sent Democrats a proposal to fund the department on Wednesday night.  

Many senators on the committee told The Daily Signal they had not yet seen the official proposal, but from what they know about it, the deal is not sufficient. 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told The Daily Signal he hasn’t yet seen the text, but it has been described to him.  

“I think they’re just more of the same window dressing and cosmetic proposals,” said Blumenthal. “They [The White House] failed to do the kind of rigorous, far reaching, overhaul that is necessary to rein in and reform this out of control agency,” Blumenthal claimed.  

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced a series of demands that needed to be met for Democrats to vote to keep the government open. The extensive list included items such as requiring judicial warrants for immigration enforcement and banning identity-protecting masks for immigration officers.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Thursday that the offer “falls short” of Democrats’ demands.

“My preliminary assessment of it is that it falls short of the type of dramatic changes necessary in order to change ICE,” Jeffries said in a press briefing of the “so-called offer.”  

Schumer echoed this messaging on the Senate floor claiming that “the administration doesn’t actually want to reform ICE.”  

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters as he left Thursday’s hearing that he doesn’t know where he stands on negotiations with Democrats on the funding bill, “because even some of the reforms that are going to be proposed by the Democrats, I think, aren’t concrete enough for me to know yet exactly what those reforms are.”

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told The Daily Signal outside the hearing room that he has also not seen the proposal from the White House.  

“Chuck Schumer wants to shut down ICE, and he doesn’t care that TSA is not going to get paid, and the Coast Guard is not going to get paid,” Scott said.

“It seems like all the Democrats want to do is support criminals that are coming into this country,” Scott continued.

“They want open borders, and then whenever ICE or CBP, and Border Patrol wants to do their job, all the Democrats do is attack them,” the Florida Senator concluded.

Democrat Sens. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Ruben Gallego of Arizona also said they have not seen the White House proposal.

Slotkin told the Daily Signal that while she is not on the negotiating team, she is aware conversations are still happening.

“I am not supporting additional money for ICE until and unless they have significant reforms, and we haven’t seen that,” said Slotkin.

“From the top lines we’re seeing, it’s not sufficient, at least for me to have to vote for it,” Gallego confirmed.  

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