Was the teen shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, on cross sex hormones? Other medications? If so, did this contribute to the violence? Did Van Rootselaar have mental health diagnoses that were ignored or undertreated in favour of “gender-affirming care” — which critics, me included, point out is sometimes offered by health-care professionals as a panacea for other mental disorders? (Importantly, can we acknowledge that “gender affirming care” is now a globally-recoginzed medical scandal, even?) Was Van Rootselaar involved in, or radicalized by, online trans communities that focus on perceived oppression or discrimination against transgender-identifying persons? Or, as transwoman Laura Targownik asked in the Post, “Does (gender) dysphoria directly increase propensity to male-coded violence, or is it a background element in a far more complex phenomenon?”







