A GOP Washington State legislator thought it would be perfectly fine for her to act in a “motherly” fashion and question students who were visiting her office if they were still virgins.
WTF?!
A group of teenagers were taking part in Teen Lobbying Days and were also accompanied by representatives of Planned Parenthood when out of nowhere State Rep. Mary Dye began asking them if they’d ever had sex.
Rachel Todd of Planned Parenthood said that Dye asked the students if they were virgins and insinuated that one of them might not be:
“After she made the statement about virginity, all of my teens looked at me. And I said, ‘You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to answer that.'”
When none of the students replied to Dye’s inappropriate query, Dye then launched into a speech about her personal thoughts on marriage and sex. Dye herself admitted:
“I shared with them that I did not support the issues they were advocating for. Following a conversation they initiated on birth control for teenagers, I talked about the empowerment of women and making good choices — opinions shaped by my mother and being a mother of three daughters.”
And this is her business and her place to lecture young people how exactly?
Dye later said she might have stepped over the line with her remarks to the teens:
“In hindsight, a few of the thoughts I shared, while well-intended, may have come across as more motherly than what they would expect from their state representative. If anything I said offended them or made them feel uncomfortable, I apologize.”
Rachel Todd said she literally had never seen anything like Dye’s behavior:
“I’ve never been in any type of meeting, especially with teens, where an adult, especially an adult legislator, was so incredibly disrespectful and inappropriate.”
One of the students, Alex Rubino, remarked:
“It seemed kind of insane for her to say that, especially on the record, to constituents.”
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