That’s when the man’s wife joined in, attacking Starr and her ex-wife, she said. “And he said, ‘Oh yeah, a girl,’ and he put finger quotes up in the air and said ‘a girl,’ and he looked at them and he said, ‘If they’re not boys, they’re trans,’” Starr said.
That’s when Starr pounced to defend her child, telling the man that her daughter is a girl. “He pointed at my daughter and another girl with short hair and said, ‘Why are you letting boys throw?’” Starr said. Heidi Starr of Kelowna, about 80 miles north of Canada's border with Washington, told USA TODAY on Tuesday that she was attending the school district-sponsored event along with her ex-wife and their daughter, whose name she didn’t want shared.Īll the 4 th-grade girls at Thursday’s event were taking turns at shotput when a grandfather in the crowd interrupted, standing in front of them and confronting one of the organizers, loudly saying: “This is a girl's event.
Watch Video: Trans teen publishes children's book about inclusivityĪ Canadian mom wants to press charges against a man who verbally attacked her 9-year-old daughter at a track-and-field event, angrily questioning the girl’s gender and calling her mothers “genital-mutilators' in an incident has drawn national attention and the condemnation of the premier of British Columbia.
