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I didn't hear about this when it originally happened. Not enough detail in the article to understand what actually happened.
Basically, Republicans were super excited about this whole thing because it backs up two things they particularly like: (1) A rare and exciting confirmation of their almost-totally-hallucinatory claim that we urgently need to keep transgender people out of bathrooms to protect the children (2) People on their team being above the law, and justified in violently resisting law enforcement if someone tries to subject them to the same rules as everyone else (the fascist playbook of replacing "what did you do?" with "which team are you on?" when deciding whether someone is guilty of a crime).
I can understand why the father lost his shit over his daughter being sexually assaulted kn a bathroom. The governor is slimy as shit for taking advantage of the situation. But trans or not, the school fucked up in how they handled the situation.
IDK anything about how this particular school handled this particular situation, but I genuinely can't think offhand of even a single situation where a school at any level properly handled a physical or sexual assault on their campus. Just call the cops. It's a crime, fuck the school administration, deal with the system that at least has a track record of prosecuting in a meaningful way some nonzero percent of the cases of assault that they come in contact with. You can keep the school administration informed of what you're doing, or not, and ask or subpoena them for information, according to what you feel is necessary.
Mrm, I dunno. I keep thinking, if this was a Black man protesting an instance of police brutality in the same way and he got pardoned, would liberals rejoice and say justice was served? Probably.
We’re all biased. Not necessarily to the same degree, but it always bears asking yourself “what would we do in the same situation?”
That is not equivalent. A genderfluid person assaulting his daughter, awful as that is, is not a systemic problem like police violence. It says nothing about genderfluid or trans people as a whole.
Fair point on a societal level, but I don’t think that would matter to a father of an abused daughter. I still think empathy is warranted.
Empathy, I 100% agree with. I think the father in that situation should get a lot of leeway for getting overly emotional in his response. And I think I remember that the court system actually did do that: Gave him recognition of the fact that he was generally a good citizen who had a good explanation for why he lost his shit, and gave him probation and dismissed some of the charges.
I do also think the woman who he was in the argument with in the school board meeting has a right to her own safety and to say what she wants to say without somebody threatening her, whatever their reasons. I also think that it's relevant what is best for his daughter. I think usually that reaction of "something happened to my daughter so I'm gonna get violent against unrelated people" does more harm than good overall. Being solid and emotionally stable is usually the best thing you can do for your family whatever happens, even if it's easier said than done.
IDK, I'm not trying to sit in judgement of the guy. Like I say, I get it.
The daughter of the man arrested was raped in her High School bathroom by another student. Apparently the rapist is trans and so Youngkin, who was the republican candidate for governor at the time, used this as a major talking point for his campaign “democrats want your daughters to share bathrooms with rapists”. Youngkin was elected as Governor and this was probably a large reason for his election. It seems like Youngkin is now reminding everyone of this whole event, and where his beliefs remain on this particular subject.
According to the article,
Yeah, sorry I was going off of memory. I remember the whole “issue” seemed half baked, and there were mixed reports at the time.
Why does this remind me of one of the school shootings where reports came out that the shooter was autistic and suddenly all the media had reports on "how autistic people can be violent."
I'm autistic and most times autistic people are victims of violence, not the ones committing acts of violence. But this possible exception happens and there's a group ready to portay all autistic people as violent just like there was a group ready to use this possible exception to label all genderfluid people as rapists.
That's super slimy. I still would probably lose my shit the way the father did at the school board meeting. But it certainly isn't because the person is trans.
Yeah, the school board actually did some seedy shit to try and downplay the issue. The superintendent and others were fired and might be awaiting criminal trials. The father was totally justified being angry.