Utah school board member faces calls to resign over post falsely suggesting teen girl was transgender
Education,Utah,School Boards,School,Transgender Issues,Salt Lake City,Discrimination,LGBTQ Issues
A Utah state school board member has come under fire for sharing a post in social media that appeared to falsely suggest a high school basketball player is transgender – sparking online threats against the 16-year-old girl. Natalie Cline, a conservative member of the Utah Board of Education, posted a photo Tuesday on Facebook of Al and Rachel van der Beek’s daughter in uniform with the caption “Girls’ basketball,” KSL-TV reported. She implied in the since-deleted screenshot of an Instagram ad about a game that the Salt Lake City girl...
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