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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Mon Apr 15, 2019, 01:24 PM Apr 2019

Boys stormed a girls' bathroom to 'protest.' A girl got expelled for fighting back, family says.

Source: Washington Post

Boys stormed a girls’ bathroom to ‘protest.’ A girl got expelled for fighting back, family says.

By Meagan Flynn April 15 at 6:30 AM

The plot to storm the girls’ bathroom started with a Snapchat message and ended with a knee to the crotch.

It all went down at North Pole High School in North Pole, Alaska — a small, Christmas-loving city southeast of Fairbanks — on the morning of April 4. The snap at issue: a student transitioning from female to male posted a selfie from the boys’ bathroom.

Some boys at the high school who saw the selfie, however, were angry and decided they would walk into the girls’ bathroom to take their own Snapchat selfie “as a form of protest,” Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Superintendent Karen Gaborik told The Washington Post.

But they would not get far.

The first boy to enter the girls’ room was met by a girl ― who kneed him in the groin. With that, the “protest” was over.

And now the girl has been expelled, her family told The Post.

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Boys stormed a girls' bathroom to 'protest.' A girl got expelled for fighting back, family says. (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2019 OP

So, seven boys tried to enter the girls restroom MagickMuffin Apr 2019 #1

I'm with you FiveGoodMen Apr 2019 #2

Her sister , on Twitter, claims she was expelled... Baconator Apr 2019 #7

Otoh, maybe she wasn't in the least afraid, which is almost Hortensis Apr 2019 #11

They must have been sons of prominent citizens. lpbk2713 Apr 2019 #3

Hm. Sounds like she was standing her ground. flvegan Apr 2019 #4

From the article: tblue37 Apr 2019 #5

I'll lay 10 to 1 odds that these lunkheads' parents are all worked up about transgender access to Mc Mike Apr 2019 #6

Ain't Taking That Bet ProfessorGAC Apr 2019 #8

100 to 1? Mc Mike Apr 2019 #9

I Still Lose A Buck ProfessorGAC Apr 2019 #10

Sorry Prof. Can't blame me for trying, though. Nt Mc Mike Apr 2019 #12

MagickMuffin

(15,943 posts)

1. So, seven boys tried to enter the girls restroom

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 01:41 PM

Apr 2019

'Gaborik would not confirm whether the girl was expelled, citing student privacy, but said all seven boys involved in the protest were also disciplined for “attempting to enter the girls’ bathroom.”

How would a young girl know what the intent of those seven boys would have meant for her. They could have held her down and raped her. SEVEN boys tried to enter the girls restroom.

I hope the young lady gets her verdict overturned, certainly not the justice she deserves.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

2. I'm with you

Reply to MagickMuffin (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 05:32 PM

Apr 2019

Those in charge should know better.

Baconator

(1,459 posts)

7. Her sister , on Twitter, claims she was expelled...

Reply to MagickMuffin (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 07:39 AM

Apr 2019

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

11. Otoh, maybe she wasn't in the least afraid, which is almost

Reply to MagickMuffin (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 07:54 AM

Apr 2019

certainly the case, and reacted inappropriately with violence. We know she attacked a fellow student physically and hurt him. That he was a misbehaving jerk doesn't make violence somehow worthy of support.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)

3. They must have been sons of prominent citizens.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 05:42 PM

Apr 2019

The girl was the victim here and yet she is the one that was punished.

flvegan

(64,408 posts)

4. Hm. Sounds like she was standing her ground.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 11:15 PM

Apr 2019

tblue37

(65,370 posts)

5. From the article:

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 11:22 PM

Apr 2019

Mikki Kendall, a Chicago-based feminist writer, questioned on Twitter in one widely shared tweet, why after all of the “bathroom panic bills about trans kids, when a group of cis boys actually harass girls in a bathroom the girls are punished for defending themselves?”