Friday, October 18, 2013

The Damage Has Been Done.

You cannot unring a bell.

All over the newspapers and in headline on website there was a story of how a trans-student was harassing a girl in the bathroom at a school in Florence Colorado… well the story was false.

Cristan Williams at The TransAdvocate spoke directly with Superintendent Rhonda Vendetti, who said that no harassment took place. Here is the interview the Ms. Williams had with the superintendent.



The allegations were brought by the Pacific Justice Institute, which is a California conservative organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom. The Pacific Justice Institute played a major part in the Proposition 8 law suit and they are supporting the ballot effort to repeal the transgender school law (AB1266) which requires equal access to public school facilities and other school activities based on the student’s gender identity.

According to the Pacific Justice Institute the mire fact that a trans-student can use the bathroom of their gender identity is harassment.
We’ve seen similar claims. It is our position that the intrusion of a biological male into a restroom for teenage girls is inherently intimidating and harassing. We have received additional reports of particular incidents of harassment, and we are working to corroborate those reports. In our letter, we specifically asked the school to notify us immediately if they disputed any of the factual allegations. To date, they have not done so. The core of this story — that the school is elevating the rights of one self-proclaimed transgender student while minimizing the privacy rights of all the biologically female students, has not been seriously controverted. We encourage journalists to continue their important work of investigating the details of this story independently and not simply accepting the statements of either side, and certainly not pulling their stories simply because activists demand this story be silenced.
Does anyone find the timing of this is conveniently timed with the start of the effort to recall AB1266? I know I do. They made all these allegation right at the same time they are collecting signatures for the recall petition.

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