🚨BREAKING 🚨Utah State University's women's dorm has allegedly allowed a “transgender” individual as a "Dorm Mom," turning a supposed safe haven for female students into a nightmare of wokism that threatens the safety of female residents. 🧵
This week, Cheryl Saltzman, a concerned mother, bravely took to social media to voice her outrage because a man has now moved into her daughter’s all-women's secure environment (Merrill Hall Dorm) without notice to the women students. She was horrified to meet "Marcie," whom she said is clearly a "biological man" infiltrating the dorm. "Marcie" now ironically holds the misleading title of Resident Assistant, or “Dorm Mom” a position that should be about protecting young women and the “community standards”, but is now compromised.
Stalzmans’s said at some point during “Marcie’s” move-in one of the female students who lives in the dorm spoke with “Marcie’s” mother, who not only confirmed “Marcie” is in fact a “trans” person with specific pronouns to use, but wanted to make sure the female students“felt comfortable” her son was moving in with them. I was able to independently corroborate this part of the story.
Saltzman's courageous post shed light on her deep discomfort with "Marcie's" inappropriate presence in the dorm, questioning whether "Marcie" has inappropriate access (as the Dorm Mom) to the private rooms of these vulnerable female students. After her complaint, the university, in a dismissive move, merely offered her daughter alternative housing, showing clear negligence towards the safety and privacy of the remaining female students in the dorm.
Saltzman shared a photo with me depicting a strange introductory collage “Marcie” apparently created and publicly posted on a large wall in the dorm for all the girls to see. (See below)
“I’m doing this to make change and to protect the female students who may not have the courage to speak up. And last, it’s just wrong!” She and her husband told me in a phone interview with them… “Our daughter luckily had us as parents who live close enough to the school to protect her; and a lot of these students don’t have that kind of support” Eric Saltzman said.
This scandal echoes a recent uproar at Utah State University (Logan, Utah) where brave members of the women's volleyball team, like Kaylie Ray, were unfairly vilified for standing up against playing against transgender athletes from San Jose State. It's worth noting that some misguided staff from Utah State University were allegedly among those condemning their own team, revealing a disturbing pattern of disregard for women's sports and spaces.
The situation raises serious doubts, again, about the leadership of President Elizabeth R. Cantwell @USUPres at Utah State University, who seems more interested in pushing radical agendas than in safeguarding the sanctity of women-only spaces and sports.
Hopefully this story will not only push USU to take swift action, but also compel “Marcie” to disengage from gender appropriation in women’s college dorms, and ultimately remove the “woman face” he has on.
USU Update🚨I followed up and spoke with Utah State University’s spokesperson Amanda DeRito today @MandyDRito to address her lack of transparency and clear omission of facts in the statements given to ABC4News Ut, 2News Ut, and Fox13 Ut, on the “Trans Dorm Mom” case at USU.
Yesterday DeRito claimed to these outlets: "Merrill Hall is a co-ed residence hall where students are assigned apartments according to the gender they report in their housing application. USU does not have all-female or all-male residence halls." (USU Corrects Misinformation-Fox13 Utah)
While it's true Merrill Hall Dorm Building itself does accommodate both men and women, DeRito's statement omitted and grossly misrepresented critical details to this story: because within the Merrill Hall dorm, there are dorm “pods” apartments (6 person) designed to be gender-specific. Further, "Marcie," the man pretending to be a woman, could’ve possibly had the option to reside in another "Gender Inclusive Housing" building, but instead chose to live in a 6 person pod designated for specifically for women.
These apartment “pods” (see below) create a very intimate living environment where female residents share not only a small kitchen but also a small (1) toilet and (1) shower.
This setup raises significant privacy and safety concerns for the female residents who must not only live with a man pretending to be a woman, but navigate through this small shared living space to reach their private rooms, potentially exposing themselves after showering and not being able to get fully dressed in the tiny bathroom.
This situation has drawn the attention of Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, @mschultz_12 who thankfully commented, “We will absolutely not tolerate this insanity any longer. In this session, we're going to make it unequivocally clear: female spaces are for biological females only. No woman should ever feel forced to relocate just to feel safe and comfortable on our college campuses.”
During my conversation with Amanda DeRito, she said that “Marcie” as the Resident Assistant does in fact have the ability to open any of the other female room doors if “Marcie” needed to enter in certain situations. DeRito also surprising referenced my personal life, mentioning my children at one point on the call wanting to know why I specifically cared. I asked how she knew I had children, and paraphrasing she responded, "I looked you (it) up." This raises questions about the appropriateness of such actions within her professional role as spokeswoman for Utah State University. Further, did Amanda DeRito “look up” the family of others who reported this story (like Fox13) and ask them about their children when they interviewed DeRito?
Towards the end of our conversation, DeRito wanted to emphasize two points with her clear bias on this case: 1) "Marcie" is an individual person with feelings whom “she” deserves protection, and 2) my reporting was "misinformation." I countered several times during the conversation by highlighting that real female students were and are the ones feeling uncomfortable due to this situation USU created, and are also individuals with feelings who deserve protection, which the school should have provided.
I also pointed out that DeRito's statements to the news channels were in fact misleading, particularly the omission of the intimate living arrangements within these gender-specific apartment dorm “pods”, within the Merrill Hall dorm building.
Again, our hope is that President of Utah State University Elizabeth R. Cantwell @USUPres will quickly get her act together and learn how to protect real women in the school she is supposed to be leading.
As of now, @fox13 & @abc4utah have not updated their coverage to reflect the true nature of the intimate living conditions where these real women are still living with a man in Utah college campus. 🧵