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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon Oct 2, 2023, 10:09 AM Oct 2023

Out-of-state anti-trans group stages protest at UW sorority

WYOMING

Out-of-state anti-trans group stages protest at UW sorority

by Wyofile
16 hours ago

Three out-of-state activists placed flyers and rocks with discriminatory statements Thursday evening near a University of Wyoming sorority that made history last year by becoming the first to admit a transgender woman, police and LGBTQ advocates said.

University police responded near the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house after the three activists began placing flyers on vehicles parked along King Avenue, school spokesman Chad Baldwin told WyoFile. The three also placed rocks painted with messages on the ground and wrote in chalk on the sidewalk.

Many of the messages, Baldwin said, related to the sorority’s admission of the transgender sister. Wyoming Equality, an LGTBQ advocacy group, described the messages as derogatory, hateful and intimidating.

“Out-of-state extremists tried to intimidate a UW sorority today — they vandalized the campus and menaced young women with hateful messages printed on stacks of rocks,” Wyoming Equality Director Sara Burlingame said in a statement late Thursday. “This is how you know they aren’t from Wyoming: They were cowardly and cruel.”

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This article was originally published by WyoFile and is republished here with permission. WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy.
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Out-of-state anti-trans group stages protest at UW sorority (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2023 OP
always out of state and no name and no identity. AllaN01Bear Oct 2023 #1
It's the old definition of a Puritan SCantiGOP Oct 2023 #2
Industrialized astroturfing. ...nt 2naSalit Oct 2023 #3
So why aren't the republicans in an outrage about 'outside agitators'? canuckledragger Oct 2023 #4

SCantiGOP

(14,201 posts)
2. It's the old definition of a Puritan
Mon Oct 2, 2023, 10:19 AM
Oct 2023

Someone who is terrified that someone, somewhere, is enjoying themselves.

canuckledragger

(1,897 posts)
4. So why aren't the republicans in an outrage about 'outside agitators'?
Mon Oct 2, 2023, 06:42 PM
Oct 2023

Last edited Mon Oct 2, 2023, 07:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Like they're always try to lie about when Democrats in their own states protest something?

Oh that's right. THEY are the outside agitators...and always were.

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