in a district in missouri, a proposed official school policy:
The policy also includes the following provision: “Except as necessary due to a physical or kinetic disability, only toilets and urinals shall be used to discharge human waste within restrooms or single-use restrooms.” According to Reed, anti-trans organization Francis Howell Families, which supported five members of the district’s current school board, confirmed that the policy is aimed at banning “cat litter-boxes for staff to clean up.”
In the last few years, anti-trans conservatives have pushed the urban myth that schools have begun recognizing furries — a subculture in which people dress up as anthropomorphic animal characters — as a gender identity and begun installing litter boxes for students who identify as furries to use. Republican politicians and right-wing commentators have repeated the hoax to gin up the moral panic around trans and nonbinary kids and to push efforts to ban students from using school bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The myth has been thoroughly debunked. Last October, NBC News reported that none of the school districts that had been accused by Republican politicians in 2022 of installing litter boxes had actually done so.
republicans have the weirdest obsessions, and mindlessly believe the dumbest things. lol
At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.
The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen asked during a campaign stop, “Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?”
And during a legislative hearing last month in Tennessee, two Republican state lawmakers discussed the “growing crisis” of public schools providing litter boxes for children who identify as cats, and claimed it’s happening across the state.
At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats, according to an NBC News review of public statements.
Every school district that has been named by those 20 politicians said either to NBC News or in public statements that these claims are untrue. There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats.
its amazing these republicans are smart enough to dress themselves. lol
The policy also includes the following provision: “Except as necessary due to a physical or kinetic disability, only toilets and urinals shall be used to discharge human waste within restrooms or single-use restrooms.” According to Reed, anti-trans organization Francis Howell Families, which supported five members of the district’s current school board, confirmed that the policy is aimed at banning “cat litter-boxes for staff to clean up.”
In the last few years, anti-trans conservatives have pushed the urban myth that schools have begun recognizing furries — a subculture in which people dress up as anthropomorphic animal characters — as a gender identity and begun installing litter boxes for students who identify as furries to use. Republican politicians and right-wing commentators have repeated the hoax to gin up the moral panic around trans and nonbinary kids and to push efforts to ban students from using school bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The myth has been thoroughly debunked. Last October, NBC News reported that none of the school districts that had been accused by Republican politicians in 2022 of installing litter boxes had actually done so.
republicans have the weirdest obsessions, and mindlessly believe the dumbest things. lol
At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.
The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen asked during a campaign stop, “Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?”
And during a legislative hearing last month in Tennessee, two Republican state lawmakers discussed the “growing crisis” of public schools providing litter boxes for children who identify as cats, and claimed it’s happening across the state.
At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats, according to an NBC News review of public statements.
Every school district that has been named by those 20 politicians said either to NBC News or in public statements that these claims are untrue. There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats.
its amazing these republicans are smart enough to dress themselves. lol
