Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet - Kelowna News
Editors note: the man accused of making the derogatory comments detailed in this story is denying the allegations. A full story on that is here.
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Two Kelowna moms are speaking out after their 9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event on Thursday at Kelowna's Apple Bowl.
The mothers, who choose not to identify their daughter, say she was competing in a shot-put event when a grandfather of one of the other participants started yelling at her.
Starr says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.
"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"
Starr said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."