Thu Nov 3, 2022 – 6:02 pm EDT
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colorado (LifeSiteNews) — Public school officials in Jefferson County, Colorado have been caught falsely claiming that students were not dressing up as “furries” in school.
“Furries” refers to people who dress up as animals.
Media attention over the issue began when Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl said at the end of September that there are “furries in Colorado schools.”
Ganahl said there are at least 30 different schools this is happening in and specifically cited Jefferson County schools as one of the examples. A Fox 31 Denver anchor said the story had been debunked and a fact-check attached to the YouTube video said the claim is “an assertion that has been disputed by a local district, and in fact-checks from across the country.”
“There are no litter boxes in our buildings and students are not allowed to come to school in costume. There are no furries or students identifying as such during the school day,” a spokesperson told Fox 31 at the end of September. Ganahl never said students were using “litter boxes.”
But there are furries in the schools and parents were raising the issue to
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