Two Canadian mothers are outraged and making their displeasure known after their 9-year-old daughter was harangued at a field day competition on Thursday. A spectator questioned the girl’s gender and berated her family.
Kelowna’s Apple Bowl, a multipurpose stadium located about 230 miles northeast of Spokane in British Columbia, hosted a day of children’s track and field activities.
The girl’s two mothers said one of the competitors’ grandfathers shouted at the daughter during a shot-put competition. On Facebook, the moms only identify their daughter as Winter.
“She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, ‘Hey, this is supposed to be a girls’ event, and why are youletting boys compete.’ My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut,” Heidi Starr explained, local news site Castanet reports.According to Starr, the man asked for proof that her daughter was a girl.
“He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, ‘Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.” according to Star
The man’s wife then referred to Starr as “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile,” she said.
The site reports that the superintendent, Kevin Kaardal, indicated that steps are being taken to prevent the man from attending future school events.site. “The gentleman was not a part of our school district. We are taking steps to ensure he is not able to be on our school property or attend events in the future.”
Kaardal called the situation “totally unacceptable,” adding that “adults need to govern themselves and behave appropriately.”
“Staff intervened and actually moved the shot-put away from where he was,” Kardaal told the news