Transgender lifeguard candidate rejected by City of Jacksonville after removing top at the pool
Something scandalous happened, from the way the headline reads, right?
"It happened at the city pool at Cecil Aquatic Center during a group try-out for the job. There were children present during the exercise. The city has received complaints about the incident, though a city spokesperson said they did not have the total number of complaints. Two sources within city hall told Action New Jax that the city has chosen not to hire that applicant."
Here's the reality:
Cielo Sunsarae is a trans man. He had top surgery last year. A quick check of TikTok shows he has had facial hair for a long time. During group try-outs for public pool lifeguard jobs, Cielo TOOK OFF HIS SHIRT WITH ALL THE OTHER MEN TO GET INTO THE POOL.
But here's the statement the city released:
"This incident happened Thursday of last week at Cecil Pool. A transgender person, a female who identifies as male, removed their shirt exposing their bare breasts, and completed a portion of the training with 20 other trainees. While we cannot confirm the age of the individuals participating in the training, JaxParks recruits lifeguards starting at age 15. This occurred within view of several dozen children and their parents sharing the same pool at the same time.”
Again, Cielo has had top surgery. And he has facial hair. The only bare breasts visible in that line up of applicants who all took their shirts off to get in the pool were men's bare breasts, both by identity and appearance. But the city knew Cielo was trans, either by his scars or by doing a background check on applicants prior to the swim test.
Of course, he didn't get the job. Because he is trans. Florida doesn't care if the SCOTUS rulled a couple years ago that such discrimination is unconstitutional. If anything, like other red states they want to put a fresh case before the new, more conservative court so the law can be changed.
(I'm linking to Yahoo! only because it's incrementally less-bad than linking to Fox)
https://news.yahoo.com/transgender-lifeguard-candidate-rejected-city-205131129.html
This is what trans genocide looks like. And they won't stop with us.
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"When the artist and activist Joanne Motichka took the self-portrait that appeared on the Aug. 15, 1993, cover of The New York Times Magazine, she was 39 years old. Ms. Motichka — who goes, Cher-like, by Matuschka — had been told she had breast cancer at 37 and had undergone a mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy.
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When the photograph appeared on the cover, it received one of the largest responses in the history of The Times Magazine. “Nothing had caused quite as much of a stir,” Ms. Froelich said. “It was one of the all-time most controversial, and a gatherer of a lot of letter writing.”
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Mail from readers arrived at the magazine by the cartload: thousands of letters from men and women, some who identified with the cancer survivor on the cover, and others who objected to what they felt was too negative a portrayal.
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But the response to the bold photograph was largely positive. “I applaud you for your courage and commitment to issues that affect us all,” one reader wrote, adding that the cover image “was the most powerful I have seen on any magazine.” "
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/insider/breast-cancer-mastectomy-photo.html
And probably be flagged as obscene by algorithms that would then hide the article from search results.
Can't look at reality, you know. Don't show graphic pics of dead soldiers or chests / breasts that used to be female.
Response to Oneironaut (Reply #18)
And, furthermore, I don’t agree with just letting breasts hang out. Obviously, if true, that changes the story a lot.
My position now is to seek further clarification, honestly hoping that this won’t be used as ammo against trans people by those who hate us.
Response to Oneironaut (Reply #22)
