At a campaign stop in Hutchinson on Sept. 29 distributed in a video on social media, GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen claimed that schools allow children to use litter boxes to urinate.
"What are we doing to our kids? Why are we telling elementary kids that they get to choose their gender this week? Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?" asked Jensen, a family physician and former state senator. "We've lost our minds. We've lost our minds."
Asked multiple times to identify which schools Jensen was referring to, his campaign declined to do so, responding instead with, "The campaign has no comment."
Furries are recognized as people who broadly identify with animals and sometimes dress up in fur suits and attend conventions. They have long said they're misunderstood. Not all of them dress up, and many say it's just another way of being social and meeting people — not a sexual fetish. A 2015 Star Tribune story reported an active state chapter of about 100 furries, as there are certainly furries who aren't in an active social organization.
Persistent — and debunked — rumors about litter boxes in schools seem to have been promoted by Republicans throughout the country for several months. Last week, a GOP gubernatorial candidate in Colorado made a similar false claim.
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