GOP Senate candidate to protect children from Litter Boxes

[surada]

Republicans are outraged there may be imaginary litter boxes in schools.

They don’t care if there are guns

Morons.

 

[Sixties Fan]

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.”

To a person not steeped in the culture war battles over gender identity that have engulfed school districts nationwide, it’s the kind of claim that would sound bizarre and confusing — and, from high-profile GOP members, authoritative.

The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen askedduring 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.

But the claim has taken on a life of its own among a growing number of Republicans, conservative influencers and political commentators. In an episode of Spotify’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast this week, host Joe Rogan told former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that a litter box was installed in a school that his friend’s wife worked at for a girl who “identifies as an animal.” A clip of the discussion quickly began to circulate on social media. Rogan did not name the school, and his publicist did not respond to a request for comment.

There is a real subculture of people known as furries, a community of children and adults who roleplay as anthropomorphized animal characters. But the vast majority of them still identify as humans, while sometimes adopting an animal-like persona and engaging in short-term roleplay, according to furries and experts, one of whom noted that there are no litter boxes at furry conventions. Three school-age furries told NBC News they have at times dressed up at school, typically wearing just part of their full costume such as a mask or gloves that look like paws, but they’d never heard of any furry ever asking for a litter box.

That has not stopped such rumors from circulating on social media, where they have been repeated like a game of telephone, often with descriptions of friends of friends who supposedly saw such things firsthand. And it has not stopped some politicians from picking up these claims and using them to alarm people by saying that this is where protections for LGBTQ students will lead.

“What’s most provocative about this hoax is how it turns on two key wedge issues for conservatives: educational accommodations and gender nonconformity,” said Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and co-author of “Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America.”



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Cat litter box myths are suddenly a culture war flashpoint. Here's how that happened.

At least 20 Republican politicians have claimed that schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats. The school districts say these claims are untrue.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Indeependent]

Nobody tells a three year old about sexual habits
They do tell them that not every family has a mommy and a daddy

You're a liar and not a good one.
Parents have been crashing classrooms after their very young kids have been told to inform on the perversion their teachers are preaching.

 

[surada]

Tells them when they're 7, not when they're 3.
I don't need to know anyone's genital habits or desires.

I never heard of a homosexual 7 year old.

 

[surada]

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.”

To a person not steeped in the culture war battles over gender identity that have engulfed school districts nationwide, it’s the kind of claim that would sound bizarre and confusing — and, from high-profile GOP members, authoritative.

The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen askedduring 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.

But the claim has taken on a life of its own among a growing number of Republicans, conservative influencers and political commentators. In an episode of Spotify’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast this week, host Joe Rogan told former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that a litter box was installed in a school that his friend’s wife worked at for a girl who “identifies as an animal.” A clip of the discussion quickly began to circulate on social media. Rogan did not name the school, and his publicist did not respond to a request for comment.

There is a real subculture of people known as furries, a community of children and adults who roleplay as anthropomorphized animal characters. But the vast majority of them still identify as humans, while sometimes adopting an animal-like persona and engaging in short-term roleplay, according to furries and experts, one of whom noted that there are no litter boxes at furry conventions. Three school-age furries told NBC News they have at times dressed up at school, typically wearing just part of their full costume such as a mask or gloves that look like paws, but they’d never heard of any furry ever asking for a litter box.

That has not stopped such rumors from circulating on social media, where they have been repeated like a game of telephone, often with descriptions of friends of friends who supposedly saw such things firsthand. And it has not stopped some politicians from picking up these claims and using them to alarm people by saying that this is where protections for LGBTQ students will lead.

“What’s most provocative about this hoax is how it turns on two key wedge issues for conservatives: educational accommodations and gender nonconformity,” said Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and co-author of “Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America.”



(full article and video online)

Cat litter box myths are suddenly a culture war flashpoint. Here's how that happened.

At least 20 Republican politicians have claimed that schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats. The school districts say these claims are untrue.

www.nbcnews.com

This is ridiculous. Cats don't go to school.

 

[rightwinger]

Teachers are told to communicate in meows.

Teen Who Identifies As A Cat Allowed By School To Act Feline, Not Speak | 102.7 KIIS-FM

The school called the young girl "phenomenally bright."

kiisfm.iheart.com

So a Private School in Australia accommodates a child with mental issues

While the school didn't confirm the specifics, they did explain in a statement that some of their students display "a range of issues from mental health, anxiety or identity issues," noting, "Our approach is always unique to the student and we will take into account professional advice and the wellbeing of the student."

 

[Indeependent]

I never heard of a homosexual 7 year old.

I didn't say that the kid is gay, I said the school wants 7 year olds to consider whether or not they will be gay when they get older.
It's sick and it's all over the news.

 

[Sixties Fan]

I never heard of a homosexual 7 year old.

They may not yet have already identified themselves as homosexuals to themselves or others, but they do notice at an early age.....many say about 5, that they like others from the same sex.

 

[Sixties Fan]

This is ridiculous. Cats don't go to school.

It is one of the many absurd allegations Republicans have been spitting out since 2016, all to delegitimize the Democratic Party and those who vote for them.

It has become a horror art syndrome now, as no one seems to know how to stop all of this LIES. Because that is all they are.


LIES.

 

[surada]

I didn't say that the kid is gay, I said the school wants 7 year olds to consider whether or not they will be gay when they get older.
It's sick and it's all over the news.

You are gullible as hell.

 

[Indeependent]

You are gullible as hell.

You are ignorant as hell, but we already knew that.

 

[evenflow1969]

There are litter boxes being put in school bathrooms to cater to these sick kids. My kid’s school thankfully said no way to that garbage, but many of the surrounding districts caved. Including one of the largest districts in our area. I can’t imagine custodians are too happy with having to clean human feces out of these things. So sadly, it’s not an exaggeration.

Lol, what the retard right will believe is absolutely hilarious

 

[surada]

It is one of the many absurd allegations Republicans have been spitting out since 2016, all to delegitimize the Democratic Party and those who vote for them.

It has become a horror art syndrome now, as no one seems to know how to stop all of this LIES. Because that is all they are.


LIES.

Are these kids who think they are cats using litter boxes at home? I'd send them home. You really have to be potty trained before you go to school. The Trumpies are morons.

 

[jknowgood]

Have they had surgery?

They are given puberty blockers and California wants to become a sanctuary state so that parents cannot stop a child from Transforming.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Are these kids who think they are cats using litter boxes at home? I'd send them home. You really have to be potty trained before you go to school. The Trumpies are morons.

This is the same kind of lie they spat out about Hilary and that Pizza place with a basement with trafficked children which did not exist.

The basement at that restaurant did not exist, and of course, no trafficked children.

But they continue to tell that LIE.

 

[bripat9643]

Thank Goodness we have Republicans to protect our children


Guess what? We have furries and fuzzies in classrooms,” Bolduc told the crowd. “They lick themselves, they’re cats. When they don’t like something, they hiss – people walk down the hallway and jump out,” he said, as a hissing sound could be heard.

“And get this, get this,” he continued. “They’re putting litter boxes, right? Litter boxes for that. … These are the same people that are concerned about spreading germs. Yet they let children lick themselves and then touch everything. And they’re starting to lick each other.”

GOP New Hampshire Senate nominee repeats hoax that kids are using litter boxes in schools | CNN Politics

The Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire shared at a Thursday event the hoax claim that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools.

www.cnn.com

Does anyone question why Q is so powerful with Republicans?

So you think no one could believe that a public school would do this? The same ones that invite drag queens to read to kids?

 

[rightwinger]

It is one of the many absurd allegations Republicans have been spitting out since 2016, all to delegitimize the Democratic Party and those who vote for them.

It has become a horror art syndrome now, as no one seems to know how to stop all of this LIES. Because that is all they are.


LIES.

It is amazing how Republicans have no filter or skepticism about the outrageous stories they are being told

Obama was born in Kenya
Hillary murdered Seth Rich
Democrats run pedophile rings out of Pizza Parlors
Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide
Liberals put litter boxes in schools

 

[rightwinger]

So you think no one could believe that a public school would do this? The same ones that invite drag queens to read to kids?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Students having fun.

And you are being gullible and making more of it than one should.

All to attack Democrats.

Correct.

And to ‘justify’ attacking transgender children and vilify them.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

And it has not stopped some politicians from picking up these claims and using them to alarm people by saying that this is where protections for LGBTQ students will lead.

Not ‘some’ politicians – Republican politicians.