A student at the University of North Texas was escorted to safety by police Wednesday after a mob of protesters chased her following an event featuring a Texas House candidate who spoke on children’s gender transitions.
The student, Kelly Neidert, and state House candidate Jeff Younger were forced to hide in a janitorial closet following an event at the university where Younger, who has been engaged in court battles for years with his ex-wife over the gender identity of his child, had attempted to give a speech.
Neidert, a member of the Young Conservatives of Texas at UNT, had helped organize the event, which was abruptly interrupted by police, who ordered both Younger and Neidert to evacuate the classroom where the lecture was supposed to take place, the Daily Wire reported.
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Video from the classroom circulated online Thursday, showing student attendees repeatedly banging on tables while chanting “F*** these fascists.”
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1499382633951907840?s=20&t=06M_esXO4Zv9sUtV7P36iwAfter police entered the room, a video filmed by Neidert shows her, Younger, and a police officer hiding in a janitor’s closet while protesters roam the hallways of the building.
“Initially when we were first led out of the building to evacuate, I felt like everything was gonna be under control, but after I was chased into the building with a police officer, when we were in this janitor’s closet, I honestly was very scared,” she told the Daily Wire.
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Neidert was then rushed to a police car while protesters repeatedly shouted, “F*** you.”
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The event with Younger was supposed to focus on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new directive to the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services that instructed the agency to treat gender transition procedures on minors as child abuse.
The guidance generated national controversy, and Neidert credited it for contributing to the backlash against her that began prior to Wednesday’s event. An online petition launched last month seeking to have her expelled from the university has garnered over 17,000 signatures as of Thursday afternoon.
“Throughout the entirety of her time on campus, Kelly Neidert has perpetuated a hostile environment by encouraging and disseminating transphobic, racist, and homophobic rhetoric,” the petition reads.
The petition was launched after a video went viral last month of another student yelling at Neidert for printing out flyers that said, “criminalize child transitions.”
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“This latest string of push against her has come from a video, now with over one million views on Twitter, which depicted her recording another UNT student for calling her out for printing fliers that said, ‘ban childhood transitions,’ a headline used in conservative media to push a narrative that trans kids are forced to undergo gender-affirming care,” the petition says.
Neidert said she has been subjected to numerous threats, which she says started with the incident over the flyers.
“Once students found out what the flyers were for, everything just snowballed from there,” she told the Daily Wire. “I also think Greg Abbott’s Executive Order regarding transgender children along with his win in the Republican primary on Tuesday also contributed a lot of the animosity and vitriol of the students/antifa people who showed up.”
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The UNT student said that prior to being chased by protesters Wednesday night, she hadn’t been particularly scared by the threats.
“I guess I don’t really care about the backlash I received, but when I was literally hiding in a janitor’s closet with a police officer and the lights off with these people running in the hallway, screaming, I mean, at that point I was pretty scared for my life,” she said.
