School board member’s child got a scary death threat over trans student policy

One of the death threats Brenda Sheridan and her family have received.
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Death threats against school board members are becoming so pervasive that even the child of a member received one because their mother works in a school district with a trans-positive policy.

“It is too bad that your Mama is an ugly communist whore,” the letter, addressed to the child of Loudoun County school board member Brenda Sheridan, read. “If she doesn’t quit or resign before the end of the year, we will kill her, but first, we will kill you!”

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Sheridan, who was board chair last year and is still a member, became a target after rightwing media flogged a story for months about how a “gender fluid” student used the district’s accepting policy on transgender students in order to sexually assault a girl in the bathroom.

There were several flaws in using the story to attack the transgender policy. For one, the…

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