Utah official censured for falsely suggesting teenage girl is transgender
Utah Board of Education member Natalie Cline will be stripped of her committee assignments and prohibited from attending some board meetings.
Utah’s Board of Education voted to censure one of its members and called for her resignation on Wednesday after she appeared to falsely suggest a teenage girl was transgender on social media.
Natalie Cline, the censured board member, posted a flyer for a Salt Lake City high school basketball team on Facebook last week, suggestively writing: “Girls’ basketball...” Although the post was later deleted — and it was revealed that the girl is not trans — Cline received a chorus of criticism from Utahns across the state last week, including from Gov. Spencer Cox.
In addition to being censured, Cline will be stripped of her committee assignments, prohibited from attending the board’s advisory committee meetings and forbidden from placing items on the board’s agenda, the board said.
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And even if the girl was trans, she still shouldn't be bullying kids online. Jesus fuck, these people are so disgustingly pathetic.
Shitty thing to say but I want her in a lawsuit/jail for harassment.
This government official used her position to ruin the life of a teenager. Over fucking nothing.
Yup. "Trans" is the new "witch".
Oh my god you’re right and I’m disgusted
You're disgusted by our brave civil servants engaged in their holy duty? That sounds like something a witch would say!
How do we kill witches now? I saw a documentary on them recently and I think there was like a killing curse but then a boy with a forehead scar deflected it.
I prefer burning. Put your witch on a nice, big bonfire, and if you can hear the demons they've enslaved screaming when the fire gets going, then they're a witch.
If not, make sure you have enough water to douse the fire before it moves north of their legs.
I prefer the old "duck on a scale" method.
Should be a slam dunk:
She'll definitely learn her lesson from that wrist slap.
I mean isn't that literally all they can do?
No. It's not literally all they can do. At bare minimum she should have been expelled. And I hope she is sued into poverty by the girl she maligned.
There's a reason she got in the board.
She’s an elected official. Imagine if governments could just expel any elected officials they didn’t agree with. What she did is fucked, and the girl should absolutely sue. But I doubt the board of education has the power to just kick her out entirely. They pulled her out of her special committees (where a lot of policy is written before it reaches a general vote,) and barred her from attending non-essential meetings. What else do you realistically expect them to do? The board did what they could to hamstring her and prevent her from pushing actual policy.
Legislatures can expel anyone they want with a vote.
They have a civil case for defamation, but I honestly think adults bullying children should get a criminal citation. Not a felony, but still something.
I think it should be a felony for a member of the board of education. She knowingly and willingly endangered the life of a child.
Trans hate harms everyone.
As a resident of this state it bugs the shit out of me to know these are the folks my neighbors vote for.
And when I see a reference to Utah in the news, I immediately wonder what kind of stupid or horrible thing have we done this time.
As a Texan, I feel your pain.
Oklahoman. Same here.
Also as a fellow Oklahoman I too feel the pain.
As a Floridian so do I
Perhaps they're competing against Arizona for "Florida of the West" honors.
From a trans person, thank you to all of you on this thread. It's the first time I've felt hope from a comment section since I don't know when.
Republicans are the biggest snowflakes I’ve ever seen tbh. Imagine feeling the need to shit on a high schooler for a political W.
Fucking pathetic.
Especially over something as ridiculous and inconsequential as high school sports.
What religion does she follow?
It's Utah. She's LDS.
...or on LSD:
This was a case of a politician misgendering a child. The language you are using suggests that it was an adult, and raises an eyebrow.
Edit: my fat thumb added letters where there shouldn't have been.
Buds, your reference was shit, and this kid had to go into hiding.
Sad to read that.
Guess I should "Stop messin' around". But I'm already walking on "Shakey ground", so why not give some "Eyesight to the blind"?
It was the visible "Adam's apple" that made that woman dive in "Head first" into a "Permanent vacation", wasn't it?
Ok, ok, joke aside, best I "Fly away from here" before you "Get the lead out".
Better?
Put the shovel down and step out of the hole.
Don't wanna. It's old stuff nobody wants anyway.
You really shouldn't take "Dare to be stupid" as a personal anthem.
But it's the most pleasant anthem of all.
How the heck does your language reference the lyrics
Lyrics? Ain't nobody got time to read lyrics! Just go read a book or something and leave the less educated nod their heads to catchy sound bites.
Youngsters these days....
Then how exactly is that a reference?
What exactly does a "chick" look like?
You see you are looking straight into the Pandoras box of whats literally the ultimate goal of GOPs transphobia?
Women must fall into this very specific definition of what they believe a women must be. Even down to appearance. If a women isn't tall, blonde, white, and beautiful than she's not a woman and undeserving of equal treatment under the law. Even the accusation is enough to control who's perceived to be a real woman