Florida Woman Friday
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Action News Jax has confirmed a controversy over a transgender lifeguard applicant who applied for a job with the City of Jacksonville.
It happened at the city pool at Cecil Aquatic Center during a group try-out for the job.
There were children present during the exercise. The city has received complaints about the incident, though a city spokesperson said they did not have the total number of complaints.
Two sources within city hall told Action New Jax that the city has chosen not to hire that applicant. The city released the following information about the incident:
“This incident happened Thursday of last week at Cecil Pool. A transgender person, a female who identifies as male, removed their shirt exposing their bare breasts, and completed a portion of the training with 20 other trainees. While we cannot confirm the age of the individuals participating in the training, JaxParks recruits lifeguards starting at age 15. This occurred within view of several dozen children and their parents sharing the same pool at the same time.”
Action News Jax spoke with Cielo Sunsarae, the executive director and founder of Queer Trans Project, who said they were disappointed it happened.
“This individual here was coming for a position to protect the children and people at the pool, they came here for one person and were denied for another reason completely not related to it,” Sunsarae said. “Kids don’t sexualize breasts, it’s the adults that are making it out bigger than what it is what is the difference if the person had top surgery or not?”
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"Top surgery..."
FFS stop sugar-coating it and call it what it is - bilateral mastectomies.
