The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding

In what is becoming a regular occurrence, someone trans-identifying is accused of committing a mass murder, this time during a high school hockey game, in suburban Rhode Island.

Robert Dorgan, who preferred to be called Roberta, killed his ex-wife and one of his own children and shot three more people before turning the gun on himself.

In 2020, Dorgan had told police that he was being kicked out of his home, by his father-in-law, after Dorgan had undergone “gender-reassignment surgery.”

His wife, Rhonda Dorgan, wrote “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits” as her grounds for divorce, but those words were crossed out and “irreconcilable differences which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage” was written instead.

Dorgan certainly seemed like he was going through a mental-health crisis.

In the days leading up to the slaughter, Dorgan posted on X, “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.”

Realistic discussion

But no one was bashing him.

That response was aimed at actor Kevin Sorbo posting on X that trans Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride is actually a man, which is the truth.

Truth is important, and trans people have been lied to long enough.

That truth is considering “bashing” is much of the issue when we try to have a realistic discussion about transgenderism.

A pattern has emerged.

Just last week, a boy in a dress shot up a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, one of the worst mass shootings in Canada’s history.

In August, a trans shooter murdered two children and injured 30 others in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

The shooter in that mass murder, Robert Westman, had a history of rattling kids at his middle school as he would “heil Hitler” in the hallways.

Dorgan similarly enjoyed Nazi propaganda, often reposting Nazi tweets and getting an SS tattoo, a “Totenkopf,” on his arm.

Before that, Audrey Hale killed six people, including three children, at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn.

After that shooting, the Associated Press did a fact check on whether there had been a rise in transgender mass murderers, as there had been three other transgender mass murderers before Hale.

The AP confidently declared there was not.

Perhaps a recheck of this data is now necessary as the thing that never happens just seems to keep happening.

Left still blames guns

A New York Times story on the horrific murders noted the police chief said the suspect “went by two different names” but not that the alleged shooter identified as transgender.

Instead the piece, written by three reporters, tacked into the same opinion as usual: Guns are the problem.

“The shooting underscored the painful regularity of gun violence in America, taking lives at grocery stores, concerts, churches.”

The shooting actually underscored how many gender-confused people are turning to violence.

The line has long been that we must take transgender identity very seriously but now the same people instantly hide that identity when it becomes inconvenient.

We can’t continue to engage in the delusion that one can actually change their gender, that “gender-reassignment surgery” is more than just mutilation and, of course, that the urge to change one’s birth gender isn’t already a mental-health emergency in and of itself that has recently become accompanied by horrific violence.

We can not change the conversation to guns or anything else.

We can not keep pretending there is no connection.

So much of the verbiage around transgenderism veers into pretense, and it’s time for a collective facing of reality.

Robert Dorgan’s mass murder spree happened because his mental illness, which manifested in cutting off his genitals, went unchecked.

We have to stop this madness now.

Karol Markowicz is the host of the “Karol Markowicz Show” and “Normally” podcasts.