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dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 09:57 PM Oct 2013

Anti-Trans Radical Feminists Team Up With Conservatives to Harass Colorado Trans Teen

On October 10, the California-based right-wing law firm Pacific Justice Institute issued a press release on its website titled "Nightmare: Teen Boy Harasses Girls in Their Bathroom, Colo. School Tells Girls They Have No Rights."

Like a page out of the right-wing playbook on trans issues, the press release read, in part:

Attorneys with Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) sent a strongly-worded letter this afternoon to school officials at Florence High School, warning them against squelching student privacy and speech rights in order to cater to the wishes of a teenage boy who has been entering girls' bathrooms on campus...

Parents at the school, located near Colorado Springs, became irate when they learned that a teenage boy was entering girls' bathrooms and, according to some students, even making sexually harassing comments toward girls he was encountering. When the parents confronted school officials, they were stunned to be told the boy's rights as a self-proclaimed transgender trumped their daughters' privacy rights. As the controversy grew, some students were threatened by school authorities with being kicked off school athletic teams or charged with hate crimes if they continued to voice concerns. The parents became aware of PJI's Notice of Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and contacted PJI for help.

http://www.autostraddle.com/anti-trans-radical-feminists-team-up-with-conservatives-to-harass-colorado-trans-teen-201433/

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Anti-Trans Radical Feminists Team Up With Conservatives to Harass Colorado Trans Teen (Original Post) dlwickham Oct 2013 OP
TERFs should be classified as a hate group pitbullgirl1965 Oct 2013 #1
Sounds like some people DonCoquixote Oct 2013 #2
the more things change... Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #3

pitbullgirl1965

(564 posts)
1. TERFs should be classified as a hate group
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 10:33 PM
Oct 2013

Funny, there is someone on here who calls herself a radical feminist. I have no idea if she's a TERF

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