An incident that took place in Kelowna, British Columbia last week has the internet up in arms as a man hailing from said city is accused of verbally abusing a nine-year-old girl who was competing in a track meet.
The man, who has since been identified as Josef Tesar, is said to have suggested that the young girl was transgender as he yelled “Get that boy off the field.”
Karri Star, the mother of the girl in question, spoke to the Kelowna Now about the incident,
“My daughter is a girl, was born female, and uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie cut,” she said. “(He proceeded to say that if my daughter was not a boy, then she was definitely trans and should be disqualified from competing.”
Karri explained that her daughter was participating in a shot put event when Tesar began berating her. Even with other people trying to get him to back off, Tesar is said to have continued his verbal attack and demanded that the girl’s mother furnish him with a birth certificate to prove that she was born a female.
Social media was in collective disgust. You can check out some of the reactions here:
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Tesar denies having yelled at anyone.
“I never yelled towards the girl,” he claims. “I went to the official in private and asked one only question if this a mixed competition” he said.
“As I was walking away from the official, a woman saying ‘I’m her mother’ and [she was] yelling, and swearing at me and offering if I want to see [the girl] naked, or if I want to see her genitals,” he continued.
“I said ‘No, the certificate is OK.’ That’s all I said. I never pointed to another girl and said she’s obviously trans. That is a big lie as well.”
He has since been banned from all school sporting events in the district while Kelowna police are reported to be conducting investigations.
