ABC News, already the worst among the Elitist Media broadcast network evening newscasts, may have plumbed a new low. A story subject’s murderous, transgender father was hit with Disney pixie dust and spun into the more anodyne “former family member.”
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, March 12th, 2026:
WATCH: @ABCWorldNews retcons the Rhode Island triple-murdering transgender as the "former family member" of the brave kid who willed his team into the state championship. It was, in fact, his deranged father. pic.twitter.com/8RSJIkYxk2
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 13, 2026
DAVID MUIR: Finally tonight, America Strong. The goal of a lifetime for a high school hockey hero. Here's Will Reeve.
WILL REEVE: Tonight in Providence, Rhode Island: the high school hockey player, game-winning goal in double overtime, and his triumph after unimaginable tragedy. Blackstone Valley School senior Colin Dorgan, number 17. Nearly a month ago, Colin’s mother, brother and grandfather were killed at his hockey game- targeted by a former family member. His team, his community rallying behind Colin. And now, three weeks later, they’re back on the ice. Their jerseys stitched with a heart with the initials of the victims. It's double overtime in their Division II state semifinal game. And here’s Colin, all alone.
ANNOUNCER: It's Dorgan! Oh, my goodness! Colin Dorgan! A storybook ending to this semifinal! BVS wins it in double overtime!
REEVE: His school, behind the glass, on their feet cheering for him. The announcers recognizing the moment.
ANNOUNCER: Nothing will ever change what happened to that young man. But there’s a moment for him that he will never forget.
REEVE: Afterward, Colin calling it the greatest moment of his life, so soon after the worst. Tonight Colin Dorgan sending his team to the state championship game, saying he could feel the love from every person out there in the arena.
MUIR: We are all cheering you on, Colin, and good luck. I’m David Muir. I’ll see you back here tomorrow. Good night.
It isn’t often that we profile an end-of-newscast human interest feelgood story for some sort of over-the-top bias. Those items are usually about lost pets reunited with their families, or a profile in human resilience. And, in all fairness, this story is about that, too. This story confirms what America learned over the Winter Olympics- that hockey guys appear to be made of sterner stuff.
ABC mars this beautiful story by trying to sweep the kid’s father under the rug. “Former family member” is a bizarre sophistry because it leads one to question, exactly, when he became “former.” Was it when he decided to pretend to be a woman, or when he killed himself after eliminating other members of his family?
ABC was just as awful when the story first broke. Correspondent Stephanie Ramos waited until the end of her report to say that the kid’s father also went by a female name, as if we were talking about a drag queen stage name.
Ultimately, what we have here is a powerful story of human resilience in the face of unspeakable tragedy. This story will endure, notwithstanding ABC’s pathological need to adhere to a trans agenda.
