Dusty Farr is fighting for his transgender daughter’s right to use the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school.

Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school. Before the bullying and the suicide attempts. Before she dropped out.

Before all that, Dusty Farr was — in his own words — “a full-on bigot.” By which he meant that he was eager to steer clear of anyone LGBTQ+.

Now, though, after everything, he says he wouldn’t much care if his 16-year-old daughter — and he proudly calls her that — told him she was an alien. Because she is alive.

“When it was my child, it just flipped a switch,” says Farr, who is suing the Platte County School District on Kansas City’s outskirts. “And it was like a wake-up.”

Farr has found himself in an unlikely role: fighting bathroom bans that have proliferated at the state and local level in recent years. But Farr is not so unusual, says his attorney, Gillian Ruddy Wilcox of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri.

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    7 months ago

    Ah yes, another classic example of “its bad until it personally affected me, only then did i realize other people exist and have feelings”

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      7 months ago

      At least he went that route instead of other bigoted parents who actively drive their kids to self-harm/suicide and never learn this lesson.

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        7 months ago

        Still a self centered piece of shit, just cause he suddenly aligns with whats good in society doesnt change that.

        Next time a self centered piece of shit wind blows, his sails will catch and blow back t owards his self centered piece of shitness again.

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          7 months ago

          Ah yes, because everybody once they reach the age of 18 have their entire personality set in stone never to change again for the rest of their lives.

          Maybe we should just drop him in a volcano because he admitted that at one point he was anti-LGBTQ? What then is the point in even trying to convince others to change their ways if we’re only going to ostracize them based on their previous worldview?