Transgender Student Threatened On Facebook

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A Oklahoma school was closed for two days, after parents threatened - through a Facebook group - a transgender student, TIME reports.

TIME reports that Superintendent Rick Beene closed the Achille High School campus Monday and Tuesday so that authorities could conduct the required investigations. This after a group of parents who identify themselves in said social network as Achille ISD Parents Group write information against the minor. The group alleged that the student who identifies herself as a girl was allegedly looking over the compartments of the bathrooms.

Jamie Crenshaw wrote in a post, which was later deleted, a "notice" to parents in fifth through seventh grade. “The transgender is already using the girls' toilets. We have been informed how the school has made an effort to make sure it has its own bathroom but still uses the girls' use. It really… looks like it's going to be a long year,”Crenshaw would write as reported by TIME.

TIME explains that after this comment, the student was singled out using insulting phrases like "this thing." They even referred to the girl as "him." Other comments incited violence.

An AP note indicates that police chief Johnny Christian indicated that following the parents' threatening comments, they decided to investigate. The parents of said Facebook group complained that the 12-year-old transgender student used the toilets that are identified for girls. Although the police reported that no arrests had been made, it was learned that the mother of the transgender girl requested protection because a man questioned him.