annnnnddd - there it is.

Blazer Bob wrote: The second link you posted does not refer to the original link I posted in the OP. Nor does it refute or even challenge the central thrust of that story.

You're right, your link was far, far worse in how it described what happened. It was far more biased and wrong, using language clearly designed to cause outrage without basis in fact.

If he was trying to cover it up, why did he email the school board the day it happened, and why did the SRO immediately get involved and open an investigation with the police also getting involved. Talk about wanting to push a narrative.
Email from Loudoun Co. superintendent alerted school board on day of bathroom assault

I already wrote that I don't give a shit if transgender kids were allowed to use the same bathroom. Them being transgender and getting to use the same bathroom doesn't make the rape others, them committing an act of assault does. How does an open bathroom keep girls safe? It doesn't. It's a false sense of security and these policies don't increase the incidence of rape. If you have stats proving otherwise, feel free to bring 'em.

Girls bathrooms only have stalls with doors, not urinals. How does a transgender student in a private stall going to the bathroom offend you? I'm not looking over the wall at who else is going so I don't care what plumbing they have if they're in the stall next to me.

Re: open bathrooms, you're missing my point. The vast majority of public restrooms do NOT lock and allow only one individual at a time in them. ANYONE can walk into them AT ANY TIME. Policy does not keep predators out, and disallowing transgender students to use their appropriate gender bathroom because of fear of what a minority of predators can still do isn't right.

If you want to make it more safe for girls, then raise your children right to respect boundaries/others personal space and rights, insist that police properly investigate all assault claims, and that judges stop giving out slaps on the wrist or no punishment at all when someone is convicted.

How in the hell did you get from the words in my post that I in any way implied more than one person in a stall?????

Your claim that it was the school policy that caused this rape has zero evidence to back that up - there are no accounts of any interviews with the suspect stating why he did what he did. If you think he gave a rats ass about "school policy", I have a bridge to sell you. As homeagain said, he wasn't trans, he was a rapist posing as a cross dresser.

Her dad got mad because he tried to claim that the school tried to hide it and not have a full police investigation, which was false. He made a spectacle of himself at a board meeting, his own conduct causing him to be tossed out as he should've been, and, surprise, surprise, he's suing the board and has a GoFundMe that's raked in the dough. And those of us who are skeptical about this whole situation are the suckers? Yeah, sure. Follow the grift.

I would hope that this girl gets the validation and support she needs by doing the right thing in reporting the assault, and seeing his assailant get justice. It's a shame her parents seem to be using it as a political ploy to make money and fight against policies that are discriminatory against law-abiding, respectful transgender students.