02-11-26 am I woke?
I struggled today because I am so angry that the greatest percentage of headlines about the shooting in Tumble Ridge include the word ‘ trans’ in some way. My first thought when I heard them describe the shooter as a person in a dress with brown hair was that it was likely a male or a male presenting as female. I understood their hesitancy to say anything more without confirmation. We have since learned that it was in fact, an 18-year-old, born male, choosing she/her pronouns. I can only imagine without excusing the horror of this crime that that child was bullied living in a town of 2400 in a northern BC location. They would have been very, very different. We all have to own part of what occurred. I won’t back down for that, but I’m finding myself staying quite quiet on this subject.
It hurts me so much, too feel all the fields of that community with the loss and the fear that they now carry as well as whatever drove that poor soul to do what they did. Mental illness is a bitch and it doesn’t have anything to do with being ‘trans’
triumphgal 