Has anyone seen any trans undocumented immigrant athletes?
Otherwise, leave Sonja Shaw out of this mess.
So if you follow local politics, you likely are familiar with Sonja Shaw, the arch-conservative candidate for California State Superintendent who rose to fame by heckling and terrorizing and demeaning trans athletes and their parents.
And, as we speak, Sonja—the GOP frontrunner for the Superintendent gig—serves as Chino Valley Unified School Board President. Which means, when not heckling and terrorizing and demeaning trans athletes and their parents, she poses for pictures looking precisely like this …
… a lot.
Arms crossed.
Crucifix visible.
I-mean-business expression plastered to her perfectly botoxed dome.
And what I find weird and funny and depressing is that a woman who—should she win next year—would be charged with overseeing the California Department of Education (and, by extension, all of our public schools), has literally nothing to say about ICE dragging parents away from their kids and placing children in handcuffs. As we speak, ICE agents have been authorized to infiltrate schools to track down the offspring of undocumented immigrants and drag them out. Literally, they can enter and violently remove.
From Sonja—nary a peep.
It’s pretty jarring shit, and you don’t have to be liberal or a Democrat to find it all insanely horrifying. I mean, hell, Sonja will tell you she’s a God-fearing woman 800 times per day. Goes to church. Loves the lord and Jesus. Knows the hymns and the commandments. Certainly, God-fearing women wouldn’t favor ICE raids in our public schools, right?
Right?
Alas, judging by Sonja’s Instagram feed (her prime source of communicating with the public), the hellscape SoCal is enduring isn’t a hellscape that we need to concern ourselves with. Nope, nope, nope. In order to survive and thrive we must (wait for it) crack down on trans athletes in high school sports. Because those trans athletes are icky. And Sonja doesn’t like them. Because they’re ruining everything. Penises in pools, floating nipples, yadda yadda.
Or maybe, just maybe, this Sonja Shaw monster is not a serious person, or a figure capable of complicated thought. She is a one-trick, deep-as-a-dime dolt who believes God tells her (directly) what to do and who boasts the bandwidth to cope with one “problem,” and only one “problem”: Trans athletes! Those dang trans athletes!
So as kids are ripped from parents, and parents are ripped from kids, and school hallways wind up immigration war zones, please be polite and leave Sonja Shaw out of it.
She’s seeking out dicks in the deep end.
And not only that, but she has only a high school education. She's a fitness trainer, anti-vaxer, photographer and former realtor. Perfect background to run the state's schools.
Just a note--what Shaw is wearing as a necklace is a cross, not a crucifix. The cross is a common symbol to most Christian religions while the crucifix, which includes the representation of the crucified Christ on the cross, is predominantly Catholic in religious (not decorative) use.