Minnesota Town Rallies Around Outed Trans Child
Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports. “It’s unclear how widely the post, which later was deleted, was viewed,” the paper continues. “But Waits said the damage was immense.”“I heard from hairdressers who said they were being told about it,” Kelsey Waits told the Pioneer Press. “My husband was hearing about it from people at his work.” Kit has since been misgendered by classmates and suffered much stress and anxiety, their mother noted.Waits, who was first elected to the Hastings school board in 2017, lost her bid for reelection in November; another incumbent and a candidate endorsed by the teachers’ union also lost.
The victorious candidates do not appear “to have publicly used Kit’s gender as a campaign issue,” the paper reports. But still, it.
