>***On Tuesday, Utah Department of Education board member Natalie Cline (R) posted an image on her Facebook page of a Granite School District high school Instagram post showing two girls’ basketball team players. Cline, who has a history of publishing anti-LGBTQ+ posts, implied that one of the larger-bodied players was trans, writing, “Girls’ basketball…” The Daily Beast reported.***
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>***The larger-bodied athlete is not transgender. Her parents have said she’s a “tomboy.”***
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>*“She cut her hair short because that’s how she feels comfortable. She wears clothes that are baggy. She goes to the gym all the time, so she’s got muscles,” her father Al van der Beek told NBC News.*
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>*Nonetheless, the post caused a “firestorm,” Cline said, as multiple people shared it online and left “disgusting” comments, the girl’s father told KSL-TV.*
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>***Cline’s post brought so much harassment upon the girl that the school district had to hire police protection to ensure her safety.***
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>*Cline later deleted the post and apologized, but blamed transgender people and their allies for her post.*
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Wow. It’s like what we’ve been saying all along. Transphobia hurts everyone, and the genocidal maniacs of the GOP will end up attacking cis women who don’t look “feminine”.
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The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church. They created this person and this hateful climate. This poor girl should sue that legislator all the way. She defamed her character and caused her to lose security and safety. The GOP is a hate cult.
>“Sadly, our good faith efforts to be accepting of differences has, at time, been taken advantage of causing a loss of trust which leads to suspicious about girls who are more buff than most. This is a sad consequence of the trans movement being foisted upon us.”
This person is deranged and has no insight, she should not be in any position of authority.
how about this? every time a person, cis or trans, needs a police or private escort due because of something a republican politician said, said politician should pay the costs
They’re going to be using these anti-trans laws against cis people more and more. Especially gender nonconforming, queer, and racial minority women.
It’s a very easy way to attack someone, and attempts to defend one’s self are invariably degrading and lead to demands that one provide public proof of what one’s genitals look like.
It’s just going to get worse. Numerous stories of parents losing their shit claiming an athlete is transgender when their kid loses. None have rose to the level of requiring police protection but it was just a matter of time.
It’s almost like you shouldn’t jump to conclusions about people’s identities…
There was a similar story out a few years back about a group of mother’s turning in a girl as trans because she had beaten their kids in a competition. Petty ugly shit.
I smell a massive lawsuit
“if your hand causes you to sin, it is better to chop it off; if your eyes cause you to sin, it is better to gouge them out”
– Jesus FUCKING Christ
Hell* is going to have more Christians than not
*If you believe
We cAn aLwAyS teLL
Almost like the kind of thing they were warned about.
Just waiting until a trans man jumps into women’s sports and conservatives have a fit about that, even though that follows their rules.
What a predictable outcome of bigotry. Again, primarily aimed at women.
Their genitals, not their sexuality
Exist:I there’d when I should have their’d
The state official is crazy. Just because the person doesn’t look in a way you imagine doesn’t mean she deserves all these sufferings.
Will the dopes in Florida, et al. ever realize this? They’re not going to stop at persecuting actual trans people. Even people who so much as *look* trans aren’t safe.
This is todays GOP. If you dont fit the norm then you will be accused of being LGBTQ. They want to eliminate all personal expression even if you are straight and cis.
The fuck is the matter with people. Seriously.
It’s always worth stressing that *this is the intent*. The biggest reason for their hatred of trans people is that our very existence challenges their worldview about gender-essentialist gender norms. Their tactics are meant to not only disenfranchise and hurt trans people, but also to reinforce and police gender norms and roles. It’s no coincidence that they started going hard after transgender people shortly after overturning Roe Vs. Wade.
The amount of people supporting this woman is honestly pretty disgusting.
How long before they’re publicly ripping the clothes off people the suspect of being trans? It wasn’t that long ago they were draging gays behind pick up trucks.
This isn’t even remotely ideologically consistent for this woman. These people want kids to play on sports teams that align with their assigned sex at birth. Meaning that they think a trans boy (assigned female at birth) who presents as male should be forced to play on girls’ sports teams. To put it another way, someone assigned female at birth should be forced to play on a girls’ sports team *regardless of what they look like*. Yet here she’s arguing the exact opposite. It’s not about principle or protecting kids. It’s about hate.
Disgusting and reprehensible behavior. Unfortunately, as we know, republican officials who falsely croon and cry about LGBTQ folks being child predators tend to be projecting their own sick fantasies. She’s certainly given people enough ammunition to run a full page ad questioning whether or not she’s a pervert who wants in your kids’ pants. I’d be using her words against her in the public sphere until the cows come home. And I don’t own any cows.
The parents should sue until she’s dust. Hire the best lawyer possible and promise them half the damages as payment. Open and shut.
This is the real truth about the anti-transgender movement amongst the GOP, fully on display. If you’re cisgender and think you’re safe from “trans discrimination” you should know that its never been about people being transgender, and *always* been about ***Gender Conformity***.
They’ll come for you too. This has always been about them being counter to gender non-conformity.
Elections matter
Between this and a Spanish speaking American being beat up on Fox News yesterday, it is absolutely clear that fascism has arrived in full force.
The only reason Natalie is facing any backlash is because she accidentally targeted a cisgender child. If she’d attacked a trans child she would be celebrated and that right there tells you how despicable their party is. They bully literal children.
This person should be arrested for inciting violence
A Republican elected official in Utah has endangered the safety of a cisgender girl’s basketball player after falsely implying on her social media that the player was transgender. The official’s claim has surprisingly angered transphobic Republicans — including the state’s governor — and resulted in police having to protect the girl from people angered by the social media post.
On Tuesday, Utah Department of Education board member Natalie Cline (R) posted an image on her Facebook page of a Granite School District high school Instagram post showing two girls’ basketball team players. Cline, who has a history of publishing anti-LGBTQ+ posts, implied that one of the larger-bodied players was trans, writing, “Girls’ basketball…” The Daily Beast reported.
Won’t be long before the Red states Institute mandatory genitalia checks for all public business. The party of small government, my white Cis ass.
Transphobia 🤝 Misogyny
This “gender critical” transphobic nonsense needs to end.
Jealous Karens don’t like it when girls excel, no, they have to target minors with insane accusations.
The number of actual transgender athletes is so miniscule as to be statistically insignificant, yet the entire country is filled with assholes who have nothing better to do than police minor athletes’ private parts
Seems disgusting and predatory honestly
Oh wow! The thing that *literally every single person with basic reasoning abilities* said would happen is starting to happen!!
The scapegoating and hatemongering of the trans community is already disgusting and indefensible but just based on pure demographic realities, these laws are going to hurt cis women *far* more frequently than trans women. Obviously conservative men don’t give a shit about that, but I hope that the transphobic women who support this kind of legislation realize that they’re serving as useful idiots for a conservative lobby that will toss them into the woodchipper without a nanosecond’s hesitation once they get what they want.
lol that’s funny
A cis person gets a police escort on account of violence directed at them because they were *accused* of being trans
Meanwhile trans people literally screaming “please stop attacking us with hate rhetoric it’s dangerous out here”
<crickets>
When someone needs a police escort because they were accused of being you. But you don’t get a police escort
**That’s a lotta quiet part out loud right there**
“This is a sad consequence of the trans movement being foisted upon us” No! This is an insane consequence of right wing media demanding that we hyper-focus on the genitals of children!
Sounds like a hate crime to me.
Utah has criminal defamation laws, and this is gender discrimination.
As a masculine woman living in Florida, nothing about this surprises me.
Back in the 90s when I was growing up people called me Pat (the Saturday Night Live character) and a lot worse. People threw things at me and hit me. I happen to be gay, but that’s not why they singled me out… it was my gender presentation that made them so angry. It’s this girl’s *gender* that makes them angry too.
Things genuinely did get better in the late 2000s, and especially after I got married in ‘13. If someone had something shitty to say I guess they kept it to themselves because I can honestly say everyone we came into contact with was nice to us.
But since DeSantis came to power and opened season on us, it’s been getting bad again for gender non conforming people, not just the trans folks.
*Everyone* has to push back on this stuff or it’ll be bad news for everyone. Women like to choose whether to wear pants or dresses. Men do better when they can express the full range of their feelings and experience, not just bottle things up. Flexibility is good for everyone!
Transphobia and trans hatred harms everyone, including straight and cisgender people. A teen girl is being threatened because an adult politician doesn’t think she looks feminine enough. I saw another story about a very elderly woman who was beaten because someone thought she was transgender. This must stop!
I would sue. My daughter was The Athlete in highschool. She was also 6’1″ and buff. This sort of talk and accusations were just starting when she graduated. We heard plenty of parents at tournaments and meets, especially State contests, spreading doubt about her. The more successful she was, the worse it got. I’m thankful she’s out of college now.
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>***On Tuesday, Utah Department of Education board member Natalie Cline (R) posted an image on her Facebook page of a Granite School District high school Instagram post showing two girls’ basketball team players. Cline, who has a history of publishing anti-LGBTQ+ posts, implied that one of the larger-bodied players was trans, writing, “Girls’ basketball…” The Daily Beast reported.***
>
>***The larger-bodied athlete is not transgender. Her parents have said she’s a “tomboy.”***
>
>*“She cut her hair short because that’s how she feels comfortable. She wears clothes that are baggy. She goes to the gym all the time, so she’s got muscles,” her father Al van der Beek told NBC News.*
>
>*Nonetheless, the post caused a “firestorm,” Cline said, as multiple people shared it online and left “disgusting” comments, the girl’s father told KSL-TV.*
>
>***Cline’s post brought so much harassment upon the girl that the school district had to hire police protection to ensure her safety.***
>
>*Cline later deleted the post and apologized, but blamed transgender people and their allies for her post.*
​
Wow. It’s like what we’ve been saying all along. Transphobia hurts everyone, and the genocidal maniacs of the GOP will end up attacking cis women who don’t look “feminine”.
​
The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church. They created this person and this hateful climate. This poor girl should sue that legislator all the way. She defamed her character and caused her to lose security and safety. The GOP is a hate cult.
>“Sadly, our good faith efforts to be accepting of differences has, at time, been taken advantage of causing a loss of trust which leads to suspicious about girls who are more buff than most. This is a sad consequence of the trans movement being foisted upon us.”
This person is deranged and has no insight, she should not be in any position of authority.
how about this? every time a person, cis or trans, needs a police or private escort due because of something a republican politician said, said politician should pay the costs
They’re going to be using these anti-trans laws against cis people more and more. Especially gender nonconforming, queer, and racial minority women.
It’s a very easy way to attack someone, and attempts to defend one’s self are invariably degrading and lead to demands that one provide public proof of what one’s genitals look like.
It’s just going to get worse. Numerous stories of parents losing their shit claiming an athlete is transgender when their kid loses. None have rose to the level of requiring police protection but it was just a matter of time.
It’s almost like you shouldn’t jump to conclusions about people’s identities…
There was a similar story out a few years back about a group of mother’s turning in a girl as trans because she had beaten their kids in a competition. Petty ugly shit.
I smell a massive lawsuit
“if your hand causes you to sin, it is better to chop it off; if your eyes cause you to sin, it is better to gouge them out”
– Jesus FUCKING Christ
Hell* is going to have more Christians than not
*If you believe
We cAn aLwAyS teLL
Almost like the kind of thing they were warned about.
Just waiting until a trans man jumps into women’s sports and conservatives have a fit about that, even though that follows their rules.
What a predictable outcome of bigotry. Again, primarily aimed at women.
Their genitals, not their sexuality
Exist:I there’d when I should have their’d
The state official is crazy. Just because the person doesn’t look in a way you imagine doesn’t mean she deserves all these sufferings.
Will the dopes in Florida, et al. ever realize this? They’re not going to stop at persecuting actual trans people. Even people who so much as *look* trans aren’t safe.
This is todays GOP. If you dont fit the norm then you will be accused of being LGBTQ. They want to eliminate all personal expression even if you are straight and cis.
The fuck is the matter with people. Seriously.
It’s always worth stressing that *this is the intent*. The biggest reason for their hatred of trans people is that our very existence challenges their worldview about gender-essentialist gender norms. Their tactics are meant to not only disenfranchise and hurt trans people, but also to reinforce and police gender norms and roles. It’s no coincidence that they started going hard after transgender people shortly after overturning Roe Vs. Wade.
The amount of people supporting this woman is honestly pretty disgusting.
How long before they’re publicly ripping the clothes off people the suspect of being trans? It wasn’t that long ago they were draging gays behind pick up trucks.
This isn’t even remotely ideologically consistent for this woman. These people want kids to play on sports teams that align with their assigned sex at birth. Meaning that they think a trans boy (assigned female at birth) who presents as male should be forced to play on girls’ sports teams. To put it another way, someone assigned female at birth should be forced to play on a girls’ sports team *regardless of what they look like*. Yet here she’s arguing the exact opposite. It’s not about principle or protecting kids. It’s about hate.
Disgusting and reprehensible behavior. Unfortunately, as we know, republican officials who falsely croon and cry about LGBTQ folks being child predators tend to be projecting their own sick fantasies. She’s certainly given people enough ammunition to run a full page ad questioning whether or not she’s a pervert who wants in your kids’ pants. I’d be using her words against her in the public sphere until the cows come home. And I don’t own any cows.
The parents should sue until she’s dust. Hire the best lawyer possible and promise them half the damages as payment. Open and shut.
This is the real truth about the anti-transgender movement amongst the GOP, fully on display. If you’re cisgender and think you’re safe from “trans discrimination” you should know that its never been about people being transgender, and *always* been about ***Gender Conformity***.
They’ll come for you too. This has always been about them being counter to gender non-conformity.
Elections matter
Between this and a Spanish speaking American being beat up on Fox News yesterday, it is absolutely clear that fascism has arrived in full force.
The only reason Natalie is facing any backlash is because she accidentally targeted a cisgender child. If she’d attacked a trans child she would be celebrated and that right there tells you how despicable their party is. They bully literal children.
This person should be arrested for inciting violence
A Republican elected official in Utah has endangered the safety of a cisgender girl’s basketball player after falsely implying on her social media that the player was transgender. The official’s claim has surprisingly angered transphobic Republicans — including the state’s governor — and resulted in police having to protect the girl from people angered by the social media post.
On Tuesday, Utah Department of Education board member Natalie Cline (R) posted an image on her Facebook page of a Granite School District high school Instagram post showing two girls’ basketball team players. Cline, who has a history of publishing anti-LGBTQ+ posts, implied that one of the larger-bodied players was trans, writing, “Girls’ basketball…” The Daily Beast reported.
Won’t be long before the Red states Institute mandatory genitalia checks for all public business. The party of small government, my white Cis ass.
Transphobia 🤝 Misogyny
This “gender critical” transphobic nonsense needs to end.
Jealous Karens don’t like it when girls excel, no, they have to target minors with insane accusations.
The number of actual transgender athletes is so miniscule as to be statistically insignificant, yet the entire country is filled with assholes who have nothing better to do than police minor athletes’ private parts
Seems disgusting and predatory honestly
Oh wow! The thing that *literally every single person with basic reasoning abilities* said would happen is starting to happen!!
The scapegoating and hatemongering of the trans community is already disgusting and indefensible but just based on pure demographic realities, these laws are going to hurt cis women *far* more frequently than trans women. Obviously conservative men don’t give a shit about that, but I hope that the transphobic women who support this kind of legislation realize that they’re serving as useful idiots for a conservative lobby that will toss them into the woodchipper without a nanosecond’s hesitation once they get what they want.
lol that’s funny
A cis person gets a police escort on account of violence directed at them because they were *accused* of being trans
Meanwhile trans people literally screaming “please stop attacking us with hate rhetoric it’s dangerous out here”
<crickets>
When someone needs a police escort because they were accused of being you. But you don’t get a police escort
**That’s a lotta quiet part out loud right there**
“This is a sad consequence of the trans movement being foisted upon us” No! This is an insane consequence of right wing media demanding that we hyper-focus on the genitals of children!
Sounds like a hate crime to me.
Utah has criminal defamation laws, and this is gender discrimination.
Here is her email. Let her know if you think she should resign. natalie.cline@schools.utah.gov
As a masculine woman living in Florida, nothing about this surprises me.
Back in the 90s when I was growing up people called me Pat (the Saturday Night Live character) and a lot worse. People threw things at me and hit me. I happen to be gay, but that’s not why they singled me out… it was my gender presentation that made them so angry. It’s this girl’s *gender* that makes them angry too.
Things genuinely did get better in the late 2000s, and especially after I got married in ‘13. If someone had something shitty to say I guess they kept it to themselves because I can honestly say everyone we came into contact with was nice to us.
But since DeSantis came to power and opened season on us, it’s been getting bad again for gender non conforming people, not just the trans folks.
*Everyone* has to push back on this stuff or it’ll be bad news for everyone. Women like to choose whether to wear pants or dresses. Men do better when they can express the full range of their feelings and experience, not just bottle things up. Flexibility is good for everyone!
Transphobia and trans hatred harms everyone, including straight and cisgender people. A teen girl is being threatened because an adult politician doesn’t think she looks feminine enough. I saw another story about a very elderly woman who was beaten because someone thought she was transgender. This must stop!
I would sue. My daughter was The Athlete in highschool. She was also 6’1″ and buff. This sort of talk and accusations were just starting when she graduated. We heard plenty of parents at tournaments and meets, especially State contests, spreading doubt about her. The more successful she was, the worse it got. I’m thankful she’s out of college now.
This garbage shouldn’t happen to anyone.