WCAX removes story that led to transphobic attacks on Randolph student

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https://vtdigger.org/2022/10/12/wcax-removes-story-that-led-to-transphobic-attacks-on-randolph-student/

WCAX removes story that led to transphobic attacks on Randolph student

By Patrick Crowley
Oct 12 2022, 5:03 PM

A Vermont television station has deleted the online version of a news story that garnered national attention and provoked a barrage of transphobic messages toward a transgender Randolph student and her family.

Links to the original story from Sept. 28 on the website for WCAX now turn up an error message and related social media posts have disappeared. The story’s deletion was first reported by Seven Days.

WCAX’s story quoted a Randolph Union High School volleyball player who objected to a transgender teammate’s use of a school locker room. The story was then cited in media reports by Fox News, the New York Post and Britain's Daily Mail tabloid.

Roger Garrity, WCAX’s news director, said in an email that he made the decision to pull the story “so that others could not continue to use our reporting to attack people in the transgender community.”

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1. Jesus H. Christ

Such obsession with nudity in bathrooms/changing rooms!

Can't these guys imagine how much more dangerous it would be for a female-to-male transgender man to try to use the men's facility? Can't they imagine a person known to "formerly" be a girl or woman expected to take his clothes off in front of a bunch of cis men or boys? Who needs protection from abuse here? It's not the poor pearl-clutching cis men.

Don't they understand that women's toilets do not contain urinals, where the guys can stand side by side and inspect each others' junk? That women's public toilets--including toilets in schools--contain only self-contained doored units--and that the doors can be *latched* shut? The cis females using public toilets or dressing rooms that include toilets can feel perfectly safe from prying trans female eyes. Further, in an open changing room, do they think a bunch of athletic females--who can look at each others' bodies; why don't they worry about horny lesbians?--would put up with a trans female ogling them?

Give me a fucking break and grow up.