About the Loudoun County School Board
At the Glinner update, ripx4nutmeg tells us of a story that the left-of-Fox news media so far refuse to touch.
First, a little history. In August, the Loudoun County School Board, a group of nine people who manage 94 public schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, passed a gender identity policy to allow boys to use facilities for girls, such as restrooms, if they identify as girls, and for sex-based protections for girls in sports to be removed. Seven of the nine members of the board voted for the policy.
Team Fox reported on it, Team Left of Fox ignored it. Lefty feminists have nowhere to go these days. The last 50 years might as well not have happened.
Now go back to the distant past a couple of months before the Loudoun County school board told boys to feel free to invade girls’ toilets and locker rooms, when there were news stories about an angry man being dragged away by police from a Loudoun County school board meeting. This is before the “go ahead and use the girls toilets, boys” decision.
We now know that the man in the picture is Scott Smith, and he was dragged away from a meeting this June, just days after his daughter was allegedly brutally raped by a boy wearing a skirt in a girls’ school toilet, in late May.
This happened BEFORE the board voted to make it even easier for boys to access girls’ spaces.
I didn’t know that until reading nutmeg’s piece. Breathtaking. “Oh, a boy raped a girl in the girls’ toilets? Well let’s make that easier for the boys, shall we? Fabulous.”
Meanwhile they’d tried to bury the whole “he raped her in the toilets” story.
According to the report, other parents were told an incident had occoured but there was no mention of sexual assault. Smith was told his daughter had been physically assaulted, not sexually, and staff told him it would be handled internally, without the need for police involvement.
He was enraged by that decision and challenged them in person on it, which led to the school board – which had refused to call the police when a pupil had been raped – calling the police because the father of the victim had made a scene. This, however, led to his daughter being taken to hospital where it was confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.
A few weeks later at the school board meeting, Loudoun County School Superintendent Scott Ziegler said: “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms … the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.”
During the same meeting, Smith allegedly revealed what had happened, only for a well known ‘activist’ to tell him his daughter was lying and that she would destroy his business. Enraged, he began to swear at her, which led to the police very publicly dragging him away and charging him with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The county prosecutor, who knew about the allegations surrounding Smith’s daughter, then allegedly pushed for him to be jailed.
I can’t fathom this. Just cannot get a grip on it, any more than if it were a greased pig. The school board wants to make schoolgirls vulnerable to boys in the girls’ toilets. It wants to so eagerly, so almost lustfully, that it lies about a rape that has already happened in the girls’ toilets.
The boy, who’s been described as someone who occasionally wears dresses, has since been charged with two counts of forcible sodomy; one of anal sodomy and one of forcible fellatio, and the court hearing was due to take place this month.
A few days ago the boy was arrested again – for sexual battery and abduction on another girl at another public school, just 2.5 miles away, in an incident that allegedly took place earlier this month. It’s no longer clear if the court case will go ahead this month, and the latest arrest appears to be the reason why the whole story has come to light in the last few days.
Breathtaking.
Prediction: PZ Myers will say nothing about this. David Futrelle will say nothing about this. Rebecca Watson: not a peep. You get the idea.
They are no better than the Loudoun County school board.
They can’t say anything because they’d have to admit either that some trans women are sexual predators or that some sexual predators pretend to be trans women and that there’s no way to tell the difference. Either way, they’d have to admit that shared-sex bathrooms are not safe for women and girls.
They won’t do that. The ideology is more important to them than that girl and the countless others who will suffer in the same way.
I hope I’m wrong. I hope they won’t pretend not to have seen this story. I hope they speak up about it in a way that is not mealy-mouthed and duplicitous. But I’m not holding my breath.
Until then, they are no better than the Loudoun County school board.
What ever happened to “We want people to be safe, and can’t risk doing or saying things that make people feel unsafe“? Getting brutally assaulted and raped doesn’t generally make people feel safe.
Oh right, it’s only important for people, not for women
GW, I think that is well demonstrated by the training I sat through on safety, including Title IX training, none of which mentioned women. We want disabled students to be safe (they should be). We want minority students to be safe (they should be). We want gay students to be safe (they should be). We want trans students to be safe (they should be). But women? What are they? We don’t have ‘women’ students here, only front holes and uterus havers..
The other problem I see is the definition of safety. Safety from avoidable physical harm, safety from hazards, safety from falls and assaults and shooters and pathogenic microbes in the Biology lab…yes, by all means. Safety from ideas, feelings, words? That flies in the face of academics, of education, of learning. But that is how we are defining safety these days. .
And telling us that a student who does not turn in their homework should be considered a student who is homeless or has mental health problems, and not given the zero they deserve? Spineless and ignorant.
Is it possible that Loudon County is more afraid of boycott for a bathroom bill than it is concerned about women’s and girl’s safety?
Mike, I don’t have a clear picture of everything yet, but I do see this part coming from the top down politically, as I commented on a B&W thread in June:
I see the Virginia law and the VDOE document as the start of a train wreck that might drag on for years, maybe involving most or all of the counties in Virginia, and hurting a lot of people.
Oy vey. What a mess.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/loudoun-county-trans.html