Transgender lifeguard candidate rejected by City of Jacksonville after removing top at the pool [View all]

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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.