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Valdosta

(331 posts)
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 03:07 PM Feb 2024

How to be a victim of transphobia without being trans or anything?

A tale of Republicans out of control.
And the non-apology apology didn't stop the harassment.

Utah official faces calls to resign after falsely suggesting teen girl is transgender (NBC)

A Utah state school board member is facing widespread condemnation and calls to resign after she shared a post on social media that appeared to suggest a 16-year-old girl on her school’s basketball team is transgender.

Natalie Cline, a member of the Utah State Board of Education, posted earlier this week on Facebook a flier for a high school girls’ basketball team in Salt Lake County, suggestively writing: “Girls’ basketball...” The post has since been deleted.

The teenager’s parents said the post invited a swarm of cyberbullying directed toward their daughter, whom they said is not trans and described as a “tomboy,” and are calling for Cline’s resignation.

“Here’s a person that is supposed to be in a position of leadership that advocates for our children’s safety, well-being, their privacy, and she’s the one who has instigated this post that has led to all this hate,” Al van der Beek, the girl’s father, told NBC affiliate KSL of Salt Lake City.

Cline apologized on Facebook on Wednesday, acknowledging that her post created a “firestorm” around the teenager and that “derogatory comments about the player were made.”

She also defended her intent saying that the girl “does have a larger build, like her parents,” and did not suggest she would resign.

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How to be a victim of transphobia without being trans or anything? (Original Post) Valdosta Feb 2024 OP
Some people really do suck. Ocelot II Feb 2024 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Ocelot II Feb 2024 #2
My trivial concern Dear_Prudence Feb 2024 #3
i did this just the other day. mopinko Feb 2024 #5
I've done this, but usually with someone standing guard. sybylla Feb 2024 #6
They are sorry it happened to a cis person LostOne4Ever Feb 2024 #4

Ocelot II

(121,194 posts)
1. Some people really do suck.
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 03:14 PM
Feb 2024

Has the hatred of trans people come to the point where everyone will routinely have to display their genitalia to some bigoted Karen before they are allowed to play a sport or even use a bathroom? And, of course, what about people who really are trans? Are they supposed to pretend or hide or just stay home so they can go to the bathroom without being harassed, not to mention their exclusion from sports. I can't for the life of me figure out where all this hate is coming from. WTF is wrong with people?

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Dear_Prudence

(836 posts)
3. My trivial concern
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 04:08 PM
Feb 2024

The story is horrifying and I feel for that child. My trivial concern is various legislative efforts to ban people from using the "wrong" bathroom. When the rest rooms are single, the womens' room is tied up, and the mens' room is empty, I have felt that, in urgent circumstances, a woman should be able to duck into the mens' room. I may have to become a conscient objector.

mopinko

(71,907 posts)
5. i did this just the other day.
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 09:43 AM
Feb 2024

just happened to b wearing my overalls, parka and my irish flat cap. figured i was close enough to pass.
dont think anyone noticed.
was surprised to find that a downtown eatery had single sex, individual bathrooms.

sybylla

(8,655 posts)
6. I've done this, but usually with someone standing guard.
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 11:15 AM
Feb 2024

Like my spouse or a friend - to let anyone know that the empty men's room is being occupied by a woman tired of waiting.

LostOne4Ever

(9,598 posts)
4. They are sorry it happened to a cis person
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 04:33 PM
Feb 2024

But it would have been okay if they had actually been trans is proof that these assholes know what they are doing is wrong and bigoted.

Fuck that transphobe!

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