You think they'll pull the "mentally ill white male" if the shooter is a troon? Given the fuckers who live in Portland and belong to the Woke Left, it'd be very likely that someone who'd be ballsy and insane enough to murder Ted Wheeler would be a tranny gender-sped.
Especially if they're in the stereotypical Portland weird troon attire (dyed hair, piercings, vaguely femme goth or punk fashion) and they're well known among their friends or on social media for being trans?
They pull the "mentally ill white male" card on a troon shooter, and suddenly you'll have a whole bunch of Buffalo Bill motherfuckers going apeshit and giving the MSM hell for "misgendering" the guy. Especially if they "deadname" him.
Nah, as long as the shooter doesn't identify as male or isn't white, CNN and MSNBC couldn't run interference and play their standard gaslight tactics as effectively. They'd need something else.