Where PJI’s Arguments Fall Apart In Florence, Colorado

With talking points, it’s easy to demonize a class of people as a class of people. When confronted with one, very humanized person who belongs to that class of people, it can be hard for someone to stick to the class demonization talking points. An example on point: the demonization of trans female youth as a class of people — people described by the demonizers as male — as bathroom and locker room predators of cisgender girls. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), and their coalition partners in privacyforallstudents.com, issued a press release describing a “nightmare scenario” occurring at Florence, Colorado’s Florence High School where “a teenage boy was entering girls’ bathrooms and, according to some students, even making sexually harassing comments toward girls he was encountering.” The “teenage boy” at the heart of the story is a 16-year-old trans girl. When the story was fact checked by The Transadvocate‘s Cristan

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