{"id":506024,"date":"2017-06-30T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/bethany-kozma\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:46","slug":"bethany-kozma","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/bethany-kozma\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethany Kozma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/emaoconnor\/un-meeting-trump-administration-abstinence?utm_term=.pg4vn29dj#.uiMNpXgB1\">Reporting reveals<\/a> that Bethany Kozma said during closed-door meetings at the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women that the United States was a \u201cpro-life nation,\u201d and discouraged reproductive healthcare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zYCpgdmMR9g&amp;app=desktop\">Testified<\/a> to her local school board that there is a direct link between sexual predators and trans access to facilities: \u201cImagine how predators will be emboldened and enabled, endangering other young girls if they are allowed to enter girls facilities and protected under your current policy.\u201d (Begins at 17:10)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yeSuMmIF-X8&amp;app=desktop\">Informed her school board<\/a> that the next superintendent must \u201cnot violate Title IX, not just in the female sports by allowing males to unfairly compete and possibly severely injure the girls, but also not allow males to take over bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms and push out females, denying them their right for privacy and safety.\u201d (Begins at 53:55)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/outrightinternational.org\/content\/stop-anti-trans-delegate-bethany-kozma-representing-us-csw\">Response<\/a> to a gender services clinic in Seattle: \u201cThis is horrible\u2014a place where our children will be sterilized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Attempted to discredit the identities of transgender youth by<a 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