There are no furries or students identifying as such during the school day.” Jefferson County school officials have pushed back against Ganahl’s claims, telling KDVR,“There are no litter boxes in our buildings and students are not allowed to come to school in costume. Ganahl says this apparently rampant trend in Colorado demonstrates that schools are more concerned with pushing social agendas and not doing enough to teach basic skills like reading, writing, and arithmatic - a frequent complaint echoed by opponents of public schools. That’s how you get to the kids using litter boxes in school myth.

The logic goes as such: Public schools = bad, teachers = bad, gender-nonconforming kids = bad, LGBTQ = bad, furry subculture = kinda “gay,” and even if not true, close enough. Those are then linked with a right-wing caricature of the process that gender-nonconforming students undergo when questioning their identity, which are then linked to homophobic tropes invoking “furries,” a minority sub-culture of adults - some of whom are LGBTQ-identifying - interested in roleplaying as fictional non-human animal characters. It comes at the same time conservatives have begun attacking public schools for allegedly “indoctrinating” children into “woke” ideologies, including “ critical race theory.”Ĭonservatives have also seized on Americans’ discomfort with a statistically small population of transgender-identifying youth, conflating it with the claim that schools are “indoctrinating” children in “gender ideology.” The claim that students accommodate students who identify as furries has been spreading across the country over the past year.

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