{"id":1714958,"date":"2022-10-28T10:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714958"},"modified":"2022-10-28T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T14:33:26","slug":"emails-show-colorado-district-lying-about-furries-in-schools-to-smear-parents-gop-gubernatorial-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emails-show-colorado-district-lying-about-furries-in-schools-to-smear-parents-gop-gubernatorial-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Emails Show Colorado District Lying About \u2018Furries\u2019 In Schools To Smear Parents, GOP Gubernatorial Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femails-show-colorado-district-lying-about-furries-in-schools-to-smear-parents-gop-gubernatorial-candidate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LAKEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 A Colorado school district in the wealthy western suburbs of Denver gave a blanket statement to the local press dismissing parental concerns about an issue that\u2019s galvanized the state\u2019s contest for governor. <\/p>\n<p>In September, Heidi Ganahl, the Republican candidate for governor, gave an interview to a local radio host in which she described a new phenomenon hitting Colorado classrooms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot many people know that we have \u2018furries\u2019 in Colorado schools,\u201d Ganahl told 710KNUS. \u201cHave you heard about this? Yeah, kids identifying as cats. It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it\u2019s happening all over Colorado and the schools are tolerating it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without any evidence, either from school officials or interviews with parents, the left-wing Colorado Times Recorder wrote off the comments as a conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGanahl Falsely Claims that Kids Are \u2018Identifying as Cats \u2026 All Over Colorado &#038; Schools Are Tolerating It,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradotimesrecorder.com\/2022\/09\/ganahl-falsely-claims-that-kids-are-identifying-as-cats-all-over-colorado-schools-are-tolerating-it\/49051\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined <\/a>the article from Heidi Beedle. <\/p>\n<p>The article was picked up by Democrats and the press, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/news\/furry-colorado-governor-heidi-ganahl-cat-school-costume-15155078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/misinformation\/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national<\/a>, amplifying Ganahl\u2019s remarks as evidence of a supposed extremist fabricating tales while running for the governor\u2019s mansion. While Ganahl never said anything about \u201clitter boxes,\u201d Beedle connected the remarks to GOP claims in other states that students go as far as to demand these boxes be available at school. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outrage over students who are part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csindy.com\/temporary_news\/local-furries-explain-the-oft-misunderstood-community-of-their-clawed-pawed-and-feathered-friends\/article_cbe51691-e364-5500-b138-afe1cc018b10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">niche subculture that embraces anthropomorphic art and cosplay \u2014 and is predominantly LGBTQ<\/a>,\u201d Beedle wrote, \u201cstems from remarks made by Nebraska Sen. Bruce Bostelman, a conservative Republican, who repeated false claims about furries using litter boxes in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beedle linked \u201cniche subculture\u201d to another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csindy.com\/temporary_news\/local-furries-explain-the-oft-misunderstood-community-of-their-clawed-pawed-and-feathered-friends\/article_cbe51691-e364-5500-b138-afe1cc018b10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article <\/a>she wrote in the Colorado Springs Independent. It outlines how individuals, including children, are increasingly dressing up in costumes and acting like animals to create \u201cfursonas,\u201d vindicating Ganahl\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p> Jefferson Schools Jump in with False Statement <\/p>\n<p>The controversy made its way to the Jefferson County School District in the western suburbs of Denver. On Sept. 30, four days after Beedle\u2019s story ran, a local Fox affiliate published an article claiming to discredit Ganahl\u2019s remarks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchool district disputes Ganahl\u2019s claim about students identifying as furries,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/copov\/school-district-disputes-heidi-ganahl-claim-furries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined <\/a>Fox31 News, which included a blanket statement from the administration insisting Ganahl was a liar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely no truth to this claim. There are no litter boxes in our buildings and students are not allowed to come to school in costume,\u201d the district\u2019s statement said, despite Ganahl making no reference to \u201clitter boxes.\u201d \u201cThere are no furries or students identifying as such during the school day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made despite emails pouring into the district from concerned parents raising the issue as a classroom disruption as early as March of this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an unsettling situation to many parents and students,\u201d wrote one parent demanding clarification from district Superintendent Tracy Dorland about what was happening in the classroom this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The parental rights group Jeffco Kids First shared with The Federalist a trove of the district\u2019s internal emails obtained through Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emails show the Jefferson County School District has been facing complaints from parents about &#8216;furries&#8217; for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1714961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}