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NANCY ARMOUR
LGBTQ Rights

Invasion of cisgender Utah girl's privacy shows danger in anti-trans laws | Opinion

Nancy Armour
USA TODAY

Well, who could have predicted this? Aside from pretty much everyone.

A Utah school combed through the education history of a cisgender girl last year after some parents who couldn't accept that their kids got beat launched a transgender witch hunt. Didn't let the girl or her parents know "to keep the matter private," and instead asked her middle school and elementary school to check her enrollment records.

"The school went back to kindergarten and she'd always been a female."

That was an actual sentence uttered Wednesday night by an official with the Utah High School Activities Association, which is now tasked with being the gender police because some craven politicians have decided they can demonize transgender children – children! – for their own gain.