I Got Accused of Hate Speech for Calling a Male Mass Murderer a Man
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network unironically hates me
On February 10, 2026 an 18-year-old man named Jesse Strang killed eight people in the small community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia before turning the gun on himself. Authorities and the media referred to the shooter as a woman.
Aside from a few X posts, I didn’t write or say much about this tragedy because what on earth could I really say from my vantage point that added anything but more noise to the din? But at the very least, I did feel like calling out what a massive injustice it was that the Canadian media refused to correctly identify the shooter as male. By doing so, it was the media that made the whole story focus on the trans issue.
As I said on X at the time in reply to the infamous Rachel Gilmore:
You don’t get to cry that a mass shooting has been politicized just because people are trying to correct the LIE that the shooter was a woman. It was politicized the moment that police and mainstream media decided to let that lie stand.
In another post later that day I shared my building frustration after seeing a Toronto Star headline that called the shooter “female”:
So because a young man decided to put on a dress before he killed 9 people, Canada’s legacy media is going to pretend a woman did it. You don’t hate these people enough. You really, really don’t.
It was this post, as I was recently alerted by lawyer and independent journalist Caryma Sa’d (@CarymaRules), that caught the attention of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN).
I wrote about CAHN almost four years ago (How the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is Policing Thought Crime with Your Tax Dollars) after they came to my attention for their attacks on Canadian women fighting for women’s sex-based rights.
CAHN describes itself as:
an independent nonprofit organization with the mandate to counter, monitor, and expose far-right hate promoting movements, groups, and individuals in Canada using every reasonable, legal, and ethical tool at our disposal. We use our research and experience to support communities in confronting and preventing far-right hate wherever it appears. We believe that factual reporting exposing far-right intentions and organizing is a necessary component to stopping the far-right.
Anyone who has ever been accused of being “far right” for recognizing that there are two sexes or holding other views that were perfectly common or perfectly liberal not 10 years ago will know that accusations of being “hateful” and “far right” are usually meaningless. In fact, I’d argue that people and organizations like CAHN have cried wolf so hard that they opened the door wide for the actual far right, but I digress.
Anyone familiar with CAHN and their work will also laugh at their claim that “our reporting is grounded in a strong focus on ethics.” I have seen them lie enough, and lie blatantly and shamelessly, about people and organizations I know personally, to know that any claim to ethics is itself a blatant lie.
Naturally, these lying scumbags had to involve themselves in the Tumbler Ridge shooting. In June, CAHN published a report titled “Online Transphobia Following the 2026 Tumbler Ridge School Shooting.”
The “online transphobia” in question was usually just people correctly noting that the shooter was a man. Hilariously enough, CAHN even apologized for the faithful reproduction of the quotes they used because of misgendering.
Quotes from individuals which misgender the shooter have not been edited or corrected to include the correct pronouns. The decision was made carefully by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network with the intent of highlighting the magnitude of discriminatory statements published. A consistent contention within all examples listed below is the denial that transgender people exist, and this underscores every other theme and narrative perpetuated in the days following the shooting. It is important to keep this context intact.
To be clear, this organization agonized over accurately reproducing the words of even other people who correctly referred to a male mass murderer as a man.
One of these quotes was from yours truly, deemed an “anti-transgender activist.”
Note the further implication that you should be doubly scandalized that my words were shared by Ezra Levant, owner of Rebel News.
Note also CAHN’s admission that the real problem—the issue underscoring everything else—is the refusal to believe that transgender identities even exist. By this, they mean the refusal to believe that some men and women are not men or women because they say so.
The report concludes with a section titled “Impact on the 2SLGBTQ+ Community.” They claim that the statements, like mine, included in the report have a negative impact on “equity deserving communities.” But this is completely backwards. It is not accurate speech that harms the “2SLGBTQ+ Community” but rather the authoritative reaction to such speech.
If people could simply call a male shooter a man, then yes, there would still be discussion about what impact his transgender identity and wider mental health had on his actions, and rightly so. But calling people “hateful” and “far-right” for speaking accurately only fuels resentment and, ironically, succeeds in making the entire focus of the story on the trans identity.
Dear Canadian Anti-Hate Network: There is no better way to make society hate trans people, and by extension the entire “2SLGBTQ+ community,” than by insisting that a male mass murderer is a woman. There really isn’t. The media, scared of being targeted by organizations like yours, turned a tragedy into a farce by prioritizing above all else the way a mass murderer would have wanted to be addressed. It is sickening.
You may call me an “anti-transgender activist,” but I am trying to convince people who are so tired of all this nonsense that not all of us under the alphabet umbrella are the insane totalitarian freaks you make it seem like we are. Because if that is what we are, if we do want to control speech and thought to the extent you do, then we deserve to be hated.
But that is not what all of us are. Any gay or trans person with any sense is horrified that society is apparently not allowed to recognize and acknowledge the sex of a person who committed such a heinous crime. We are horrified that any energy was extended trying to respect what might have been the wishes of a very mentally disturbed young man who took the lives of his own family members and multiple children.
On February 10, 2026 an 18-year-old man named Jesse Strang killed eight people before turning the gun on himself.
That is what happened.