On Monday afternoon in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, there was sadly the latest case of trangender violence inflicted on innocents refusing to celebrate their deranged life choices and rejection of basic biology as a man pretending to be a woman stormed his son’s high school hockey game and killed two, injuring three, and dying by suicide. By Tuesday morning when these facts had come to light, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings barely covered it and did the bidding the pro-trans cult by minimizing the shooter’s delusions. Despite having an editor-in-chief in Bari Weiss who made a name for herself in part by being anti-woke and a believer of basic biology, CBS Mornings only gave it 27 seconds courtesy of a five-sentence news brief from featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers. WATCH: This 27-second news brief was all the Bari Weiss-led ‘CBS Mornings’ had on the transgender shooter who killed two and injured three at a Rhode Island youth hockey game. Notice Vlad Duthiers refused to call the shooter transgender, only saying “the shooter had a history of… pic.twitter.com/phpOa0aLPe — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 The only allusion to the shooter was when he said in the third sentence that CBS’s “Rhode Island affiliate WPRI obtained court records showing that the shooter had a history of conflicts with family, some involving the shooter’s gender identity.” Duthiers stayed away from having to render judgement on the pronouns, instead calling Dorgan “the shooter.” ABC’s Good Morning America wasn’t any better in being honest with viewers about what happened. Co-host Michael Strahan twice teased “chaos” at the hockey game, adding in a second that the show would dive into “[w]hat we know about the person that stepped into help stop the gunman.” “Hockey rink horror. Deadly gunfire ringing out at a high school game. Young players and families run and skate for cover. This morning, what we know about the person who stepped into help stop the gunman,” co-host Robin Roberts said in another tease. Wait, neither respected Dorgan’s pronouns! Someone tell GLAAD. That rare dispensing with playing word games to please the trans mob continued into the actual coverage, which lasted a minute and 47 seconds. Co-host George Stephanopoulos began: “We’re gonna turn now to the deadly shooting at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island. The gunman killed two people, injured three more before killing himself.” Correspondent Stephanie Ramos only once identified Dorgan and his mental struggles at the very end, otherwise sticking to “the gunman” and the motive as having been “a targeted family dispute.” ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ did everything it could to completely omit the Rhode Island hockey shooter was transgender, only saying the shooter was “Robert Dorgan, who also went by Roberta.” Here was the closest Stephanie Ramos got at the very end... “Investigators say the… pic.twitter.com/pK9zpLYsDb — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 After describing the video from behind the player benches that caught the sounds of gunfire, Ramos finally arrived at the shooter, but didn’t show any of the glaring, striking images of the man cosplaying in tight dresses with a stuffed chest. All she said was the following: Investigators say the shooter, identified by police as 56-year-old Robert Dorgan who also went by Roberta, entered the arena carrying multiple weapons appearing to target a family member...His daughter telling WCVB he struggled with mental health issues. NBC’s Today went a different direction in both the amount of coverage (four minutes and 23 seconds) and going further than the others to emphasize the gunman’s motives being tied to being trans. In the first hour, co-host Craig Melvin threw to correspondent Emilie Ikeda on scene by explaining “we’re learning more about a terrifying shooting that unfolded in the middle of a high school hockey game in Rhode Island” that left “three people...dead, including the suspected shooter.” Ikeda said the game “was supposed to be a day of celebration — senior night for high school hockey players,” but “quickly turned into terror at this hockey rink” and collateral damage in “what police describe as an isolated, targeted family dispute[.]”  In contrast to ABC’s ‘GMA’ and ‘CBS Mornings,’ NBC’s ‘Today’ had a segment in each hour about the Rhode Island transgender shooting and both times pointed out the shooter wanted to become a woman, showed photos of the man in a dress, defended trans Rep. McBride (D-DE) on X, and… pic.twitter.com/PQECIyn2h3 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 Following sound from a dispatcher and the Pawtucket police chief, Ikeda dipped into the shooter’s state of mind (or lack thereof). This was far less than one would want or would happen if, say, the shooter were a straight, white male with a MAGA hat: Overnight, authorities identifying the shooter as Robert Dorgan, who they say went by Roberta Espositso. Social media showing Dorgan discussing getting gender reassignment surgery and recently responding to attacks on a transgender congresswoman, writing “do not wonder why we Go BESERK.” Police say it appears the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, adding authorities retrieved multiple firearms from the scene. They say one person tried to subdue the shooter. Incredibly, Dorgan appeared to have had some white supremacist tattoos (including an “SS”), meaning this would have been a way bigger story in the press if he weren’t insisting he’s a woman. “And Pawtucket police say the shooter was attending the hockey game to watch a family member. A woman who identified herself as the daughter of the suspect to other local media said, ‘he shot my family and was very sick with mental health issues.’ Local, state, and federal authorities including the FBI now on the ground and investigating exactly what happened,” she later concluded. The second hour saw Ikeda hit a few highlights in a live shot (click “expand”): High school hockey players were on the ice when gunshots began to ring out, sending players and spectators scrambling for safety. Police say that a gunman opened fire around 2:30 yesterday afternoon killing two people and critically injuring three others. They have since recovered multiple firearms at the scene behind me as the investigation continues. And they believe that a Good Samaritan actually stepped in and likely prevented further bloodshed. Overnight, they identified the suspected gunman as Robert Doragan, born in 1969, they say, who also goes by Roberta, seen on social media discussing getting gender reassignment surgery. Doragan, they believe, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They say this was the result of an isolated — and this was a family dispute. Local, state, and federal officials, including the FBI, now on the ground investigating exactly what happened. Here in Pawtucket, we’re less than five miles away from Brown University, where two months ago, a mass shooting killed two students and injured nine others. The governor posting that the state is grieving again To see the relevant transcripts from February 17, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).