Trolls Instantly Bury Utah’s Anti-Trans Snitch Line

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:

Less than 72 hours after the launch of a reporting form to help Utah enforce its transgender bathroom ban, the Utah auditor’s office says it has received nearly 4,000 complaints — and all of them appear to be “bogus.”

“We didn’t see anything that looks credible,” Utah Auditor John Dougall said in a phone call, noting that the claims have been “pretty easy” to screen. “For example, if they have my name as a complainant, you know, I’m not complaining.”

His office created an online reporting tool to comply with Morgan Republican Rep. Kera Birkeland’s “Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying and Women’s Opportunities,” or HB257.

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Freshman Rep. Kera Birkeland is a former Mrs. Utah beauty pageant contestant, which is “designed for married women to honor traditional family values.”

Her sole previous legislative record is a successful resolution that criticizes Shaquille O’Neal’s free throw record and mocks his movie’s rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes, really.

Last year she introduced an anti-abortion bill that was condemned by her own sister, who is a rape survivor.

Utah trolled with 4,000 hoax reports of trans bathroom ban violations within days of reporting form launch https://t.co/RzFMLoJydw

— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) May 3, 2024