Ugly Americans
in Okla.
“Just 90
miles north of Dallas is a small south Oklahoma school district with only a few
hundred students.
One of them is
12-year-old Maddie. Although she was assigned male at birth, Maddie is
transgender and has been living as a girl for two years. But last week, for the
first time, her mother says she mistakenly used the girls restroom at her
new middle school.
Little did she
know that within a few days, her gender
identity would become nationwide news and her mother would
go on television to defend her. Just her second week into seventh
grade, Maddie has faced death threats from adults many times her
age; classes were canceled over security concerns.
"You know
we have open hunting seasons on them kind. Aint no bag limit in them
either," one person posted online, according to the
local Fox affiliate, KXII-TV (Channel 12). Another said,
"If he wants to be female make him a female.
"A good sharp knife
will do the job real quick."
The adults took
to a private Facebook group for parents at Achille Independent School
District to write their threats, spurred by an angry post from a
mother who found out about Maddie's bathroom use. There, behind the
relative safety of a social media account, they urged their children to
beat their classmate and lobbed crude names at her.
"Lil half
baked maggot," they called her, and "thing." . . .
Welcome to Trump’s
America. Violence prone bigots have come
out of the woodwork after the election of Trump. Did we see anything like the mass march of
Nazis and Klan (and murder of an unarmed female protestor) at Charlottesville
in recent years?
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