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   Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️ (e_urq@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 01:39:10 JST Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️

   For the third time this year a story about a cis girl seeing a trans woman naked in a YMCA locker room has fallen apart as more details became known.

   Abbigail Wheeler saw two trans women sitting on a bench talking in their bathing suits, but never saw them change. She posted hateful signs targeting them and her family canceled their YMCA membership and pulled her from the swim team rather than allow her to face consequences for her behavior. #trans #news #journalism

   https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/illinois-ymca-wheeler-protest-transgender

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     Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️ (e_urq@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 01:39:15 JST Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️

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     As always, I do caution against putting too much blame on the young person in these stories.

     Abbigail Wheeler is 16. There are tons of bratty, attention seeking kids out there, arguably most are at that age. It's the adults who are responsible for turning this shitty teen behavior into national news to fuel a moral panic targeting innocent trans folks.

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