Lesbian Student Delivered 200,000 Signatures to Protest Bully Rating

Katy Butler, a Michigan high school student who identifies as lesbian and who launched a change.org petition to overturn the anti-bullying documentary’s R rating, personally delivered 200,000 signatures to the Motion Picture Association of America.

Bully, a documentary chronicling the lives of bullied students in the U.S, received an R rating last month ahead of its March 30 release due to six expletives. Butler has petitioned to lower the rating to PG-13 in order to reach a broader student population. Butler says she was inspired to start the campaign after experiencing a bullying incident in her own life, when bullies slammed a locker on her hand and broke one of her fingers.

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