Canada

The gender thing is just the latest in a long tradition of overly-aggressive sports parents. Parents have been freaking out at hockey games and dance recitals for as long as I can remember.

It's really just the same thing, but now with 50% more bigotry.

Like, maybe just calm down and let kids have fun?

Part of it is the rhetoric that everyone is being exposed to from south of the border .... it's extreme right wing ideology that conservatives would like to inflame everyone with, especially older people who are seeing the world that they grew up in completely changed into something more open, inclusive, multi cultural, mutlireligious, multiracial and open to sexual orientation an identity. Nothing is more frightening to them than to see their old world change and they are forced to take either a second seat or middle seat among everyone else as equals on the school bus of change.

In my experience as a visibly queer person, looks are a pretty unreliable way to judge if someone's a bigot. I've known super redneck-looking allies, and I've known glamorous looking queerphobes.

Josef Tesar is his name and harassing children is his game.

Not likely. Lots of those people in this area. Same type that spent the last few years yelling at random service employees for following COVID procedures. There's been a couple recent defaced rainbow crosswalks as well. Remaining positive has been very difficult this past few years. Happy pride month.