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DonViejo

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Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:47 PM Aug 2018

Frontier Airlines suspends pilot who threatened a trans kid [View all]

Source: LGBTQ Nation



By Alex Bollinger · Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Frontier Airlines has suspended a pilot who is believed to have made violent comments on Facebook about a 12-year-old transgender girl.

Two weeks ago, a girl in the small town of Achille, Oklahoma, became the subject of a conversation on Facebook because she used the girls’ bathroom at her new middle school.

Some of the parents of other students and adults from neighboring areas made threatening comments about her, like “If he wants to be a female make him a female. A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.”

Frontier Airlines suspended a pilot in connection with these comments. While Frontier has declined to name the pilot while it investigates the situation, a spokesperson told the AP that the pilot was suspended last Monday.




Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/frontier-airlines-suspends-employee-may-threatened-trans-girl/

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