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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchool Closes After Facebook Parent Threaten To Castrate Transgender 12-Year-Old Girl With Knife
https://www.newsweek.com/oklahoma-school-closes-because-parents-started-abusing-transgender-student-1073109An Oklahoma school has been temporarily closed after a group of parents hurled abuse at a transgender student on Facebook.
Twelve-year-old Maddie (not her real name) has identified as a girl since 2016. She had previously used the staff bathroom, but following renovations she struggled to find it and instead used the girls' facilities.
Through Facebook, the Achille ISD Parent Group discussed Maddie using the girls' toilets and quickly degenerated into violence and abuse. According to Think Progress, one member wrote: This is terrible!! Yall have great kids and a lil half baked maggot is causing them probs. We feel 4 yall.
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The comments eventually turned to physical threats. If he wants to be female make him a female. A good sharp knife will do the job really quick, someone wrote. Just tell the kids to kick ass in the bathroom and it wont want to come back!!! another person wrote.
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School Closes After Facebook Parent Threaten To Castrate Transgender 12-Year-Old Girl With Knife (Original Post)
jpak
Aug 2018
OP
"Causing them probs"... Huh, seemed like the only ones causing 'probs' were these deranged savages
ck4829
Aug 2018
#1
I'd be more worried about the adult that is thinking of a 12-year-old's bathroom use.
rogue emissary
Aug 2018
#9
Arrest them for making threats. And put pressure on their employers to fire them.
Garrett78
Aug 2018
#12
ck4829
(35,077 posts)1. "Causing them probs"... Huh, seemed like the only ones causing 'probs' were these deranged savages
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)2. Here's the ironic part.
People like him think others not like him are the freaks.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)3. Stay classy, Oklahoma...
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)4. wonderful parents....
send your kids up to a catholic school in Pennsylvania and have have kid molested the traditional church approved way
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)5. Some assholes are
even making derogatory remarks in the article comments section.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)6. We're allowing the most ignorant, violent people run things
We really need to stop doing that.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)7. some ppl shouldnt be allowed to breed
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)8. WTF is wrong with people..?!?!? n/t
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)9. I'd be more worried about the adult that is thinking of a 12-year-old's bathroom use.
spartan61
(2,091 posts)10. And I would be willing to bet
that these abusive parents consider themselves to be "Good Christians."
demmiblue
(36,855 posts)11. Good lawd... what grotesque people. n/t
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)12. Arrest them for making threats. And put pressure on their employers to fire them.
They need to pay a hefty price.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)13. Update: Maddie's parents pulled her out of the school and they are moving.
And not for the first time in young Maddie's life. I'll say it again, those "adults" who made threats should have been arrested.
https://www.care2.com/causes/bigoted-parents-bully-transgender-12-year-old-girl-out-of-school.html