For many Europeans visiting the U.S., seeing the iconic yellow school buses for the first time feels like stepping into a movie scene. Something so familiar from American culture suddenly becomes real right in front of them.
It’s interesting how everyday things can become exciting discoveries when viewed from another perspective. A simple school bus represents a piece of daily life, history, and tradition that many people have only seen on screens.
Travel allows us to appreciate the little details we often overlook. Who would have thought a yellow bus could become one of the most memorable parts of someone’s trip?
Turns out there is a bit of legal precedent for sexual assault under the guise of a "wrestling move," but it certainly didn't set a precedent that being assaulted is just an expected byproduct of the sport.
In 2010, high school wrestler Preston Hill was charged with sexual battery after executing a move coined a "butt drag" against another boy on the mat when he allegedly rammed his fingers into his teammate's rectum during practice.
The charge was ultimately dropped as a result of mediation between the two teens.
Hill was expelled from school, as officials agreed that he had, in fact, committed sexual assault.
Yet in Washington, boys who lie about their sex to sneak into girls' wrestling matches to wrestle nonconsenting girls and stick their fingers into girls' vaginas are protected.
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Let’s make one thing very clear: signing up for girls’ wrestling is in NO way a permission slip for sexual assault.
As @ADFLegal explained in our lawsuit: “Digital penetration falls outside the scope of implied consent to participating in athletics because, under normal circumstances of girls wrestling, it is not a reasonably foreseeable hazard from the perspective of a girl wrestler. Nor is sexual assault or groping generally accepted by society as part of any lawful athletic contest.”
Also: girls who sign up for girls’ wrestling aren’t consenting to wrestle boys. Kallie Keeler was betrayed by multiple adults in authority, who knowingly allowed her to wrestle a male without her knowledge or consent. They bear responsibility for what happened to her—and they are continuing to put female wrestlers in harm’s way through their actions and policies.
That’s why, besides suing governing bodies @wiaawa, @waOSPI, and the Puyallup School District, we’re also suing:
- State superintendent Chris Reykdal
- Kallie’s principal
- Her school district’s Title IX coordinator
- Her opponent’s coach
… and not just in their official capacities, but as individuals.
I’m also glad to hear the local prosecutor is reportedly still considering action against those who failed to report the sexual assault, as required by law. These mandatory reporters should have reported the incident within 48 hours but waited 53 days. They should face consequences.
We won’t rest until Kallie gets justice—and girls in Washington state get their sports back.
If she didn’t consent to wrestle with a boy, she didn’t consent for him to put hands on her, and she certainly didn’t consent for him to put fingers INSIDE her
Every violation follows from the first
Didn’t we tell you sex deception leads to sexual assault?
Didn’t we tell you?
Seven girls—ages eleven to fourteen, six of them visibly pregnant—stood on the train platform at Boston's South Station on September 22, 1920, being led by two men and three women toward a train bound for "St. Mary's Home for Wayward Girls" in upstate New York—when suddenly a woman in the crowd, Mrs. Catherine Walsh, age fifty-two, had shouted "THOSE ARE CHILDREN! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING THEM?"—and within seconds, over thirty women on the platform had formed a human chain blocking the train doors, and Mrs. Walsh had confronted the group's leaders: "Why are pregnant children being taken to New York?"—and one of the women had answered "These girls are unwed mothers going to a home for rehabilitation"—but Mrs. Walsh had walked up to the girls and asked directly "Are you married?"—and five of the six pregnant girls had whispered "Yes" and shown wedding rings, and one girl, age eleven, had sobbed "They told my parents I have to go there after my baby comes to learn to be a good mother, but I heard they take the babies"—and Mrs. Walsh had shouted to the crowd "THESE ARE CHILD BRIDES BEING TRAFFICKED! SOMEONE CALL POLICE!"—and the thirty women had refused to move from the train doors while Mrs. Walsh had kept the group there until police arrived—and investigation revealed the "home" was actually a facility where child mothers were separated from their babies (adopted out for fees), then kept as unpaid labor for years—and all seven girls were taken into protective custody, their "husbands" (ranging in age from thirty-two to forty-seven) were arrested, and the "St. Mary's Home" was raided, revealing forty-three child mothers being held there—and Mrs. Walsh and the thirty women who'd formed the human chain were credited with exposing a multi-state child trafficking operation.
The youngest girl, age eleven, lived until 2005, dying at age ninety-six. Before her death, she reflected: "I was eleven and pregnant, being taken to a train that would separate me from my baby. A stranger on the platform saw us—seven pregnant children being led away—and shouted 'Those are children!' Within seconds, thirty women formed a human chain blocking the train. They wouldn't move until police came. That human chain of strangers saved seven of us and led to forty-three more girls being rescued. One woman's shout, thirty women's bodies blocking a train, changed everything.
Our CEO, Kate Barker, calls for organisations and institutions to explain who the '+' people are, why they support them and what they have to do with LGB people.
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Hello Fresh deserves to go bankrupt after this stunt. Absolutely revolting and obscene. And the Alphabet Mafia wonders why society is turning against them? Really???
I’m a lesbian and this disgusts me. I can’t imagine how the straights feel.
It’s just too much.