Republicans Claim Furries Are Using Litter Boxes in Schools
metroweekly.comlive-streamed campaign speech on Sunday, Oct. 2.Ganahl first made the claim on a Sept. 24 episode of the Jimmy Sengenberger Show, on talk radio station 710 KNUS, and has repeated it since.When pressed for evidence of the claim, she told Denver-based FOX affiliate KDVR that it was happening in Jefferson County, the populous swing county in the Denver suburbs.Asked for specific examples by Colorado Springs-based ABC affiliate KRDO, Ganahl said she had “many, many.”Ganahl, like many other Republicans seeking office in this year’s midterm elections, has held up the litter boxes-in-schools myth to attack the public education system as falling sway to strange ideas and politically-motivated ideologies.The claim that students accommodate students who identify as furries has been spreading across the country over the past year.
It comes at the same time conservatives have begun attacking public schools for allegedly “indoctrinating” children into “woke” ideologies, including “critical race theory.”Conservatives have also seized on Americans’ discomfort with a statistically small population of transgender-identifying youth, conflating it with the claim that schools are “indoctrinating” children in “gender ideology.”Those are then linked with a right-wing caricature of the process that gender-nonconforming students undergo when questioning their identity, which are then linked to homophobic tropes invoking “furries,” a minority sub-culture of adults — some of whom are LGBTQ-identifying — interested in roleplaying as fictional non-human animal characters.The logic goes as such: Public schools = bad, teachers = bad, gender-nonconforming kids = bad, LGBTQ = bad, furry subculture = kinda “gay,” and even if not true, close enough..
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