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I've (thankfully) never encountered a reference to helicopter genders IRL, however I can't seem to escape the fucking "they're putting litter boxes in classrooms!!" myth. It's such an utterly absurd, inane, asinine idea yet I've seen real people, who are seemingly functional adults, actually believe this.
Even if you buy into the conspiracy theories and think that the education system is some globalist socialist catgirl plot, do you think teenagers equipped with cell phones and social media wouldn't meme the shit out of the classroom litterbox? And yet, we still haven't seen a single picture proving this has ever happened anywhere. That doesn't stop people from believing it though, and somehow using it as an excuse to delegitimize and attack trans people.
It's a lie spun out from a truth.
There have been issued cat litter to schools. The reason is in case of a lock down due to a school shooting the kids can urinate and defacate somewhere.
It's incredibly sad. The gun nuts believe it's their right to shoot up a school, but they won't allow cat litter to be issued to the class rooms.
Holy shit, that’s depressing. Finding out there’s a kernel of truth beneath it and that it’s this just wrecked me.
Anything but sane gun laws, eh? Once again America, what the fuck is going on over there?
Most Americans want a saner approach to guns. But the loud Republican minority makes the most noise.
From here
Suprised so many people want the assault style weapon ban. Thought it was only a few extremists who wanted that.
A troll account you should probably just ban or block judging by their comment history.
What is it with people randomly adding "per-se" to sentences where it makes no sense?
There’s a famous wrapper called Eminem? That’s such a coincidence as there’s also a rapper named Eminem!
They believe it in part because transphobia is itself inherently irrational. They already carry around the hatred for no reason, so it’s not like they’re suddenly going to have standards before they believe whatever story they hear that caters to their outrage
Because they've been taught Jesus will hate them if they're gay, and if they see an attractive person that turns out to be trans, then that means they're gay, and they're going to hell.
...er, not that it's rational, but that's my best attempt at figuring out most of these people.
I want to believe
I completely diffused someone who believed in the litterbox thing by laughing as hard at it as it should be laughed at and pointing out how hard republicans are getting trolled
School officials in a county near me had to put out an official denial about the litterboxes.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2022/09/20/evsc-addresses-rumors-of-furries-and-litter-boxes-in-local-schools/69506009007/
I had never heard about litter boxes. Can you elaborate?
There was a very real conversation about putting litter boxes in classrooms as a way to give kids locked in a classroom during a school shooting for hours a way to use bathroom. That got twisted by far-right pundits that kids are identifying as cats and that's why they are putting litter boxes in classrooms. It's just another way to attack people that "identify" as the "wrong gender". It's complete bullshit and anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together that can use Google could figure it out, if they weren't completely focused on denigrating anyone outside their strict interpretation of gender.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/litter-boxes-bathrooms/
Here's a Wikipedia article about it.
Wikipedia has a source for the "lockdown kitty litter" concept mentioned above:
Weird, but I suppose it's sensible. Better than having kids pee themselves in an extended lockdown.