Here’s how Utah’s investigation of Natalie Cline unfolded after she falsely suggested a high school athlete was transgender

Here’s how Utah’s investigation of Natalie Cline unfolded after she falsely suggested a high school athlete was transgender

It lit up on Feb. 7, as worried callers began reporting their fears that a Facebook post by state school board member Natalie Cline was harassing and endangering a student. One urged readers: “Parents please get involved and speak up for our girls,” insisting the student “does NOT belong playing against girls.”On Feb. 7, calls, emails and other messages poured in to the state board, the report said. “Due to the volume,” it said, not all of them could be included.

“Quickly people started commenting saying hateful things about my daughter and making assumptions that she is a male posing as a female,” the student’s mother wrote. “This is hateful, hurtful and needs to stop. There was no fact checking done just assumptions based on a photo. My heart aches for my daughter.”The Internal Audit Department went to Cline’s Facebook page to verify the post, the report said, and at that time, it also documented 53 comments, 12 shares and 94 reactions.

Specifically, Cline said that friends had reached out to her and confirmed the student was a “biological” girl. “She does have a larger build, like her parents,” Cline wrote. “We live in strange times when it is normal to pause and wonder if people are what they say they are because of the push to normalize transgenderism in our society.”On Feb. 9, a Friday, with complaints still coming in, staff in the IA department compared what they had read and received to the state board’s bylaws.

• Whether Cline respected the privacy of students or painted them in a negative light, and whether they had a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

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