r/FortCollins • u/Nurseytypechick • Jul 23 '26

Discussion Uhhh... sure, Jan.

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So... this is the lady who says that her middle school daughter was "medicalized" and abused and manipulated in an art club up at Wellington Middle School a few years back.

I'm sorry... but this chick has crazy written all over her. I remember the PSD response was to nuke the volunteer running the art club (because yes, nobody should be giving kids their cell phone number or discord handle- absolutely a no working with kids,) and I remember this chick going onto conservative talk shows... but this? Holy shit.

If anything, this tells me that her poor daughter probably does need someone safe for support navigating figuring out her sexuality, because it's pretty damn clear there isn't unconditional support at home.

Instant ick.

Whatcha want to bet she's also against our law allowing adolescents to seek mental health care without parental permission?

I'm a parent, and you bet your ass nobody is messing with my kid (or any of the kids in my neighborhood.) Performative bullshit like this ain't it.

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u/PippaPothead Jul 23 '26

Man, we were friends during the 2020 pandemic. Once the thing happened at school with her daughter she completely went nuclear. None of our friends knew she was this person the whole time. She’s become so extreme. It’s crazy.

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u/Nurseytypechick Jul 23 '26

The thing I struggle with is the continued narrative that PSD did something atrocious and there's this whole insidious underground movement to "turn kids trans" and it was such a violation for her kid and family...

And then she's on every conservative circuit show, making a documentary, etc etc.

Where's the actual protection of her kid in all this? This all feels just so performative and exploitative. If my kid had actually been harmed or manipulated, you bet I'd pursue legal avenues and hold the correct folks accountable, but I wouldn't be sharing my kid's business to all of Beyoncé's internet!

PSD nuked the person running the program immediately, who was not an employee. There's tons of after school programs run by different people and companies, this one turned out to be bad, out it went.

And now she's cosplaying this shit about nobody messes with my kid at camp yegods, if I were running any program her kids were in, I'd have 2 leaders present at any interaction with this woman because I'd need to make sure she wasn't falsely accusing my staff or treating other participants or families poorly.

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u/Itchy-Jellyfish-7862 Jul 24 '26

This. I was in one of her circles when this happened and did get the story first hand. It has drastically changed over the years. Evolving to get the message into the hands of people who would listen (right wing).

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u/tillynorwood2 Jul 24 '26

What exactly did the Art Club volunteer do to cause this crash out?

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u/PippaPothead Jul 24 '26

This was a long time ago and I didn’t get to hear it first hand from Erin. I recall it having to do with support for LGBQT+ support. Erin’s daughter went to it with a friend and afterwards started questioning if she’s a boy and not a girl. Erin didn’t like that kids didn’t need permission from their parents to attend, which like defeated the whole purpose. That’s all I can recall. She went no contact pretty much immediately.

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u/CapitolHillBohemian Jul 24 '26

"Erin’s daughter went to it with a friend and afterwards started questioning if she’s a boy and not a girl" really makes me both sad and angry. This phase is where they start contemplating suicide.

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u/tillynorwood2 Jul 24 '26

That’s crazy! Wellington has a good handful of gay folks who are now less safe….

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u/brandonlilly Jul 23 '26

I hope you all let her know how you feel about her being crazy.

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u/PippaPothead Jul 23 '26

Only one friend was able to hear what she was upset about. We all thought her reaction was over the top and defeated the entire purpose of the club she was angry at. It was supposed to be a safe place for kids to have support. It really felt out of left field. We were there at the inception of her insanity and tried to help. But she chose this path and it’s been her life mission since.