Dozens of students and parents at Mt. Nebo Middle School in Payson, Utah reportedly staged a walkout to protest the school’s tolerance of allegedly disruptive and violent “furries.” Furries are people who “identify” as a particular animal and are highly associated with the LGBT movement. During an interview with Conservative radio host Adam Bartholomew at the protest, students said that the so-called furries routinely bite, scratch, spray air freshener on, bark at, and chase other students.
“They run on all fours and pounce on people,” one of the students told Bartholomew. According to the students, the furries receive preferential treatment from the school’s administration. When furries “attack” regular students, the regular students claim they are punished by the school, not the furries.
The protesters also created an online petition titled “Students for Humans at School, not animals aka furries,” which demands the administration uphold its own dress code and stop tolerating furry attire.
In response to media coverage of the protest, the Utah middle school is insisting that there is no furry problem. “A lot of the information that’s been put out there is completely incorrect and inaccurate,” said Nebo School District Public Information Officer Seth Sorensen. “[T]here have been no students attending school wearing masks, animal costumes, or acting like animals.”
Rarely do school districts admit that furries exist, let alone disrupt learning when parents and students draw attention to the issue. For instance, Colorado’s Jefferson County School District publicly gaslit anyone, including former Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl, who tried to talk about the district’s growing furry problem in 2022. However, emails obtained via an open records request revealed the issue was indeed real, and the district had been receiving email complaints from parents about the furries for months.
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