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No, Maine schools really aren’t providing litter boxes for students who identify as furries

A fringe belief that Maine schools are accommodating children who self-identify as animals is recirculating despite a school official and a misinformation expert saying there is no evidence to support it. 

The Brewer School Department received questions over the winter about rumors that its schools provided litter boxes to children who “identified” as cats and other animals, Superintendent Gregg Palmer said.

“We’ve never had to deal with it, as no such thing has ever happened in our schools,” he said. “We assured folks that it had never happened in our schools and that was the end of it.”

Public schools in Maine and across the country have been plagued by false allegations that they have been forced to provide litter boxes for children who identify as animals, sometimes erroneously called “furries.” 

Their emergence represents the spread of “furry panic” from niche sections of the internet to mainstream social media, where far-right social media figures with large followings have picked them up, according to Brian Friedberg, a Harvard Shorenstein Center researcher who tracks misinformation on social media.

Just this once, I’m willing to believe that this hoax is circulating exclusively on whacko right-wing sites: the equally-far-out-there Leftists would be demanding that the boxes be installed to accommodate the furries, especially transgender ones. In fact, I happen to know that Disney World already has them!