"She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.' My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut," said mom Heidi Star.
Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.
"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"
Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."
Kari Starr, the girl's other mother, says Thursday's events have rocked their daughter's confidence.
"This has destroyed our beautiful daughter's confidence, and she was inconsolably crying during this whole event and continued once it was over and we were leaving. Not to mention, she was unable to concentrate on her track and field finals and the shot-put throw for which she had qualified," Kari said.
The parents posted a photo and identity of the man on local Facebook groups, but Castanet is not publishing that information because the man's identity has not been confirmed by the school district. ***
The headline though, "accused of being trans"? Accused of? They could have written "Girl, 9, victim of transphobic harassment at Kelowna track meet"??? Accused implies something wrong could have been done - in this case, being trans could be seen as A Bad Thing.
Also, it's notable that the guy attacked not just the girl who had a pixie cut, but the girl who has TWO moms. So, he was attacking the child of an openly non-straight couple.
But this only happens in the US, this isn't my Canada, some people claim.
It's been happening here. It's happening here. It will keep happening here until either our elected officials and LOL enforcement decide to fucking put their foot down and defend our constitutional rights to be protected from anti-trans harassment (I know the girl is cisgender, but she's a victim of transphobic hate), or until they let us fucking deal with those assholes ourselves. It's one or the other.
*** You know what? Here's the guy and his wife:
