My dogs that love gravy! Is this where we are as humans, in politics where 9-year-old children are targeted to prove a political / religious point? The two articles miss some important points about this incident.
This child was not in puberty, it wouldn’t matter if she was a boy or girl or trans as at this age most children are the same in development. No hormones have kicked in to change them either way. It is only a non-scientific religious view that says that even from birth there is a huge difference between male and female children.
Also why did the man and the woman with him wait until just as the girl was to do her event? “”She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, ‘Hey, this is supposed to be a girls’ event, and why are you letting boys compete.'” If the grandfather had an issue with a student participating, shouldn’t he have raised it earlier? They say he is a grandfather of a student, was he trying to throw the girl off her game so his own grandchild could have a better shot?
“This has destroyed our beautiful daughter’s confidence, and she was inconsolably crying during this whole event and continued once it was over and we were leaving. Not to mention, she was unable to concentrate on her track and field finals and the shot-put throw for which she had qualified,” Kari said.
But another thing both articles miss is the open bigotry against the child’s parents, who were a same-sex couple. Have we devolved so far in to the depth of inhumanity that hatred of the legal way two people live and raise their child makes the child fair game for attacks? Is that decent or moral. They went after the child due to the child having two mommies instead of the religiously preferred mom and dad. “Starr said the man’s wife then started calling her “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile.”” So they already knew about the girl and her family, they knew she had same sex parents.
So this is what the right wing wants, young children attacked with same sex parents too afraid to be open and in the public life of their child. It is really not just disrespect or deplorable actions on by bigots, it is active terrorism. The goal was clear and they accomplished it. They caused a 9 year old child to be afraid, to be unable to do their best, reduced to tears at the hate of people they did not even know. How anyone can see this and not be as angry as I am is beyond me. How anyone can justify these actions is something I don’t understand. But the right does justify it, they glory in it, to them this is a win. The Matt Walsh types won’t see their fingerprints on this child’s tears, nor the worry and fear of the parents for the safety along with ability of their child to be confident in themselves. Instead they relish the ability to destroy a family that is different from their demanded model, and they enjoy the fear they create as they think it makes them powerful and correct. Sick bastards! Hugs
Last thing. From the comments I read I followed the news articles found on this asshole. He is an asshole. He is rather wealthy and felt no problem with over charging workers / companies coming to fix problems in the areas of his motel. He seems to be a typical entitled white fundamentalist asshole who thinks god shines only on him and that gives him the right to gouge and cause grief to others. He is always right and his god agrees he is always right. My gods has the prosperity gospel religion spread so wide that the teachings of the one in the bible itself no longer matters? Hugs
Castanet reports:
Two Kelowna moms are speaking out after their 9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event on Thursday at Kelowna’s Apple Bowl. The mothers, who choose not to identify their daughter, say she was competing in a shot-put event when a grandfather of one of the other participants started yelling at her.
“She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, ‘Hey, this is supposed to be a girls’ event, and why are you letting boys compete.’ My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut,” said mom Heidi Star.
Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female. Star said the man’s wife then started calling her “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile.”
Read the full article.
According to Star, her daughter was left “inconsolably crying.” The school superintendent says that the man will be banned from future school events. Kelowna, population 211,000, is located in British Columbia, around 250 miles northeast of Vancouver. Hit the link.
9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event
Yes. Picking on a child is so manly
Fucking horrible
This happened in much more liberal Canada. Imagine if this happened in Florida?
It’s spreading all over. In Norway there have been threats to Pride events, and the words and phrases are taken from the US far right.
I am convinced that the whole trans panic these bigots are perpetrating is just an excuse so they can look into children’s underpants. Accusations of “groomer” and “pedophile” are deflections.
they seem to be already staring at the children’s groins. He looks like he was having Roid Rage moment.They are gone. Picking on Kids is malicious .
My 1st impression of his photo was that he was using steroids. His verbal assault on a child sways me to believe that too.
It is not the Democrats pushing these “show us what is in your panties” laws. It is not Democrats who are pushing — and getting — laws that criminalize breathing while trans.
There are MANY reasons to dislike and distrust the Democratic Party, but this at least is not one of those reasons.
When I saw the headline I wondered which shithole American state did THIS happen in?
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AMEN . . . They were driven by the love of white baby jesus to make that 9 year old cry.
I think this is a bit more accurate
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Hello Randy. I only wish they had such self reflections. Hugs
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