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The part that scares me in this is that it's only a story because the girl wasn't actually trans.
I mean, people were warning that this shit was going to happen when they started passing bills to enforce gender in sports (or however you want to phrase that).
Girls and boys will be asked to drop their pants by creepy coaches and officials to 'prove what gender they are', and it's gross.
Reminiscent of classical wichhunts.
For fuck's sake... that poor girl! They don't have any trans girls to go after, so they find a cis girl as a scapegoat.
"It is normal to pause and wonder if people are what they say they are."
No it isn't?
This what get me about TERFs, the harassment isn't going to end at trans women, cis women arw going to be accused of being trans and going to be attacked too!
End? The base rate fallacy means that a shitload more cis women are going to be harassed, just because there are so many more.
Gender policing is godawful for everyone and needs to be opposed.
Why the fuck is a state official questioning this via public postings rather than via the channels that would be available to officials?
Attention. That's all. Pure attention-seeking.
the bible is basically a horror story with god as the villain, so it tracks that some people that follow it so closely are just terrible, terrible humans.
'they were made in his image'
Might as well get used to the Christofascist state that the US is veering towards. As long as you're a white, conservative male you have nothing to worry about. Everyone else is fucked so 🤷..
The asshole does not even stand behind her own words. She claims she did not imply the girl was trans but also only took it down when she found out the girl was not trans. Then she says it is not her fault that people think the girl is trans because she is big. And both her and her followers are shit at English. Saying Girls' Basketball just means multiple girls possessing a basketball. If she knew basic English, she would know quotes imply sarcasm. But I guess that is more than can be expected for a school board member to know.
I mean she also using "transgenderism" which isn't exactly nomenclature either so the evidence seems to be that she's not actual speaking English but instead Conservative "Newspeak" where satire goes to die.
Horrifying. How she isn't locked up pending trial I'll never understand. The US is in an alternate reality where targeted mob harassment is apparently not a crime.
Let's take a moment and appreciate Cline. Clearly, since she has the time to baselessly attack her staff and student's personal lives in public, all other issues with Utah's schools have been resolved.
God all the vile, smiling veneers of monsters in the profile pics of comments.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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