![]() If you, like me, are a millennial who grew up on the internet, it quickly became clear that he was referring to a bizarrely literal version of “furries.” For the uninitiated, furries are a subculture whose members, to varying degrees, identify with animals - their “fursonas,” as it were. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. “They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” he told his fellow legislators. Bruce Bostelman, a conservative Republican, went viral. I first became aware of this bizarre rumor in March, when a video of Nebraska state Sen. I was shocked when I read those stories - not because of what they were saying, but because I’d heard it all before. Of course, neither candidate’s campaign was able to identify just which schools were doing this despite being asked multiple times. ![]() Moreover, they say these schools are not just accommodating students who identify as animals, but also encouraging them. In the last week we’ve heard two Republican candidates running for governor - Minnesota’s Scott Jensen and Colorado’s Heidi Ganahl - claim that kids are showing up for schools dressed as cats. ![]() At this point it’s clear that this is less a funny bit of GOP nonsense than part of the party’s larger broadside against LGBTQ kids and their rights and against public schools in general.
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