 Heidi Ganal is the GOP's gubernatorial nominee in the state of Colorado and much like her GOP peers She's trying to gin up hysteria over what's happening in schools, but unlike her GOP peers She's not necessarily hyper-focusing on CRT or LGBTQ plus books that she wants to ban rather. She's focusing on Cats or should I say students that she is alleging or identifying as cats and to make matters worse Schools 30 of which her campaign has identified are Accommodating these cat identified students according to her now. It's not happening Obviously, but this is what she says according to LGBTQ nation who reports in a radio interview last week Ganal said that schools are tolerating students identifying as cats She said in a recent debate with gain incumbent governor Jared Polis that she had received over 100 messages from parents Across Colorado mentioning the issue in their schools Her campaign also released a list of 30 schools where such issues had allegedly occurred Though the list didn't detail specifics about the incidents themselves the Denver Post reported quote as a candidate for governor But more than anything as a parent my concern is that distractions like children dressing up in costumes at school Detract from the reality that 60% of our kids are not performing at grade level Ganal said it's tragic that we are failing our children We need to make them our priority now It's ironic that she says that because rather than proposing solutions to improve the Colorado school system rather than trying to Allocate more resources to teachers so that way they're not having to use their own resources to purchase school supplies She's simply just trying to gin up outrage about something. That's not even happening in schools Now on September 6th. I actually posted a really lengthy video talking about a Relatively similar myth to this now to my knowledge. Ganal has not explicitly claimed that Schools are going so far as to accommodate cat identified students by placing litter boxes in restrooms However, I do believe that what she's saying stems from that original conspiracy theory Now I'll link you to my full coverage of this down below But if you don't want to watch that and you just want the TLDR version this myth essentially originated from this December 2021 video posted by Midland Public Schools yesterday. I heard something And I was stunned and today I am equally stunned and a little bit upset Well, not a little bit a lot of it upset furious. I would even use that word, but I Want to talk to about the fact that and I know this is going on nationwide So it is not just for your for this board, but our community needs to understand that the agenda that is being pushed through our schools is Just my opinion, but somewhat nefarious when it comes to some of the Activities so let's talk about fury furries It was addressed by a child a couple months ago that they are put in an environment where there are kids that are that Identify as a furry a cat or a dog whatever and so yesterday I heard that at least one of our schools in our town has a in one of the unisex bathrooms a litter box for the kids that identify as cats and I am really disturbed by that and I I will do some more investigation on that I know what's going on nationwide. I know it is it's part of the agenda that's being pushed I don't I don't even want to understand it But I think that people need to be aware of it because I am really upset as a parent that my child is put in an environment like that So because one concerned parent in Michigan claimed that she heard one school put litter boxes in the restrooms Well that went viral it blew up lives of tiktok shared it And then the conspiracy theories sort of died down within a couple of months after the schools came out and said No, this is not happening But the myth kept getting revived because presumably somebody saw that video again for the first time They echo that same claim on social media that claim then blows up and goes viral And that's the new evidence that this is happening again And this is how the myth keeps getting revived politicians are echoing the same claim and it just It won't die. It's like a fucking cockroach Now I think that that is essentially where ganal is getting this and I don't doubt that parents are sending her concerns about Students identifying as cats. I just think that it's stemming from this whole conspiracy theory Now this is not happening. It's not happening and it doesn't seem like ganal is curious enough to investigate herself She's just taking these parents word and rather than contacting school officials because this is a potential governor She's just repeating what they're saying It's ridiculous and of course schools once again have had to come out and state the obvious No, there are not students who are identifying as cats and we're not trying to accommodate said students who are identifying as cats It's so preposterous denver post explains officials for denver public schools cherry creek schools aurora public schools And colorado spring school district 11 all denied having any issues with students dressing up as cats Or other animals two statewide organizations representing teachers and administrators Criticized ganals claims and said they had never been made aware of such issues either randy barber a spokesman for boulder valley school district Which is included on a list ganals campaign provided of schools where students dressed like animals said he was unaware of any Such issues quote the concerns being generated by the republican gubernatorial candidate are baseless He said the claims are exhausting for educators said brad miles the executive director of colorado association of school executives His group along with the colorado education association Described the claims as false both groups said no educator administrator or district had ever reported issues Similar to ganals claims now that same individual who was just quoted went out to make a really good point He said look We are just trying our best to give students some semblance of normalcy after living through two years of a pandemic Which is still going on but you know schools are back open and we're trying to make things The best that we can do right and we have to take time out of our day to investigate these claims and then report back to parents when they're false they're bullshit and Yeah, so all of these Conservatives who are complaining about the lack of in-person learning throughout the pandemic now when school is back in session across the country They're making matters worse by coming up with these bogus claims by not even trying to investigate this themselves I mean if you're a parent and you hear this claim on social media What's stopping you from calling the school you are a parent you can call the schools You don't have to just echo the same thing that you hear in social media. Ask them. I'm sure that they'll talk to you I'm sure the principal or whoever Will say okay. Well, you know, I haven't seen this but we'll look into it and we'll get back to you They're willing to work with you But they just don't want to do that. They just repeat what they hear and it's like a game of conspiracy theory telephone Now some of the school districts who were involved who were on that list that ganals campaign put out They were trying to do their best. They said look, okay, some students were wearing headbands with cat ears But that's just like the style they they sell headphones Um with cat ears that doesn't mean that they're identifying As cats nor does it mean that the school is going out of their way to provide litter boxes for students who wear Headbands with cat ears. I mean It's a it's a non-issue. It's it's a nothing burger and another school district was like Well, I mean we did have to ban students from wearing dog collars because that kind of became a thing It was their style in the school But I mean the fact that they banded dog collars should prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they're absolutely not trying to accommodate Students were identifying as cats and dogs. Look in my main my main video where I talked about this Go watch it. I explain how this is all hysteria primarily over trans issues right because the whole Joke on the right with comedians and whatnot is that if I can be A girl if I was born a boy Then I can identify as anything including an apache attack helicopter So what's stopping students from identifying as non-human species? And it's just not true by trying to pretend as if students are identifying as cats Well, this further legitimizes this hysteria over trans issues because well, you know, maybe your kid isn't trans but maybe they're A trans species is and they're identifying as cats and ignorant conservatives take that as evidence that we should hide away trans people Because they're influencing Our children to become cats when it's just not happening So once again, this story has popped up It had to be debunked and I'm sure within a couple of months once again We'll hear from a republican who says I heard that there's litter boxes in restrooms at one school Like it's not going to die. It's not going to go away It's going to keep happening and schools are going to have to continue To respond to this bird brain claim That cats and schools or that students in schools are identifying as cats on its face These parents should be Smart enough have at least enough common sense to assume seems a little bit implausible But if I care enough I'll look into it, but that's not happening And so they're contacting republicans and these are becoming political stories It's got to stop but it won't because unfortunately This shit works for republicans. So, uh, we'll see if it works for ganal here Up yours I let her have her way I let her have her way