“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 you letting boys compete.’ My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut,” said mom Heidi Star.
“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,'” Star said, adding that the man’s wife then started calling her “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile.”
Central Okanagan School District superintendent Kevin Kaardal said he’s working to have the man banned from all school-related events.