A 12-year-old was reportedly raped in a middle school bathroom in New Mexico, but delayed reporting it because she feared being disciplined for transphobia if she reported it.
“I was raped. I was raped. I was raped. F*cking kill me,” the girl wrote in her diary. Her mother Maggie (a pseudonym) was stunned by the words she was reading in her daughter’s diary. But these words explained her daughter’s deep depression and how it suddenly transformed a once happy 12-year old.
The diary entry was about an alleged attack in the school bathroom in October 2021. Her daughter Ray (a pseudonym), a 6th grader at ASK Academy charter school, was allegedly raped by an older biological male student.
When the biologically male student first entered the girls’ restroom, Ray was washing her hands and didn’t take particular notice of the student’s sex, nor was she aware of his “gender identity.”
But before she knew it, the male student walked over to her, pinned her against the counter, and wrestled her to the floor. She says that he then hit her head, held her down, ripped her pants, and raped her.
Maggie only learned what happened to her daughter several months afterwards, when she was straightening up her daughter’s room and stumbled upon her journal. After confronting her daughter about what it said, Maggie reported the rape to the police, took her daughter for a physical exam, and began investigating the school’s role. As The Post-Millennial explains:
Maggie believes the main reason a male student was alone with her daughter that day, and had the opportunity to rape her, is because the school had fully embraced gender ideology. Upon reading through school documents and talking with her daughter and fellow parents, Maggie learned that, without her knowledge or consent, ASK Academy had fully embraced radical gender theory into its policies and classrooms.
“We learned that kids were pledging allegiance to the pride flag instead of the American flag,” Maggie said. “We learned that some teachers were discussing daily, the normalcy of transgender people and gender dysphoria, and that this school had a higher population than anyone would expect for such a small school of kids saying they were trans and parents not knowing.”
Ray, who is now 13, said the school fostered an ideologically far-left culture, which left little room for dissent. She said she felt pressured by teachers and faculty to accept the presence of men in women’s spaces, to keep her mouth shut about any feelings of discomfort, and to avoid doing anything that would be construed as “judging” someone who might identify as transgender.
It was these conditions that Maggie believes disarmed her daughter and potentially enabled a male student to take advantage of the school’s “inclusive” bathroom policies.
Ray’s allegations provide a gruesome example of what can happen when schools open girls’ and women’s spaces to men, and instruct children to embrace an ideology that teaches girls to ignore their natural instincts when female-designated spaces are infiltrated by men. It also reflects a larger shift happening in society, where the feelings and comfort of biological men take precedence over the feelings, safety, and privacy of women.
In addition to speaking to the mother and her daughter, Independent Women’s Forum reviewed the results of a medical exam confirming evidence of Ray’s hymen being ripped as the result of trauma. IWF and The Post Millennial also reviewed pages from Ray’s diary documenting the alleged rape, confirmed the existence of an ongoing police investigation into it, and viewed legal agreements for a civil lawsuit the mother plans to bring against the school….ASK Academy had a policy of affirming students who adopted “transgender” identities, and supported their use of whichever bathroom or locker room facilities they preferred. Ray said this meant she was regularly forced to use girls’ bathrooms with boys, which conditioned her to lower her guard….
At the time of the alleged attack, Ray didn’t know the identity of her alleged perpetrator. She said she could only see that he had long hair. 20 minutes after he left the bathroom, she was finally able to pick herself up off the floor. Somehow, no one had checked in on her. All she could hear was a ringing in her ears.
Feeling scared, ashamed, and thinking that no one would believe her about what had just happened, Ray went back to her class and sat in silence.
She explained that she chose not to report the alleged assault and instead suppressed her feelings out of fear of being labeled a “bigot” by her classmates for calling out the “bathroom issue,” or being served detention for “bullying.”
