Teen Girl Faces Probe for ‘Misgendering’ Male Basketball Player

Frances Staudt is a sophomore in the Tumwater School District. During warmups she realized that a player on the opposing team happened to be a boy.

She alerted her coach and was told there was nothing they could do because state polices ban gender identity-based discrimination.

Frances withdrew from the game and was forced to watch from the sidelines. Watch my interview with Frances and her mother below.

“I should not have to give up everything that me and other girls have worked for just to let a boy play,” Frances told me. “And it is unsafe. Boys and girls are different on many levels of reasons, and they’re created differently. And so it’s an unsafe advantage. And that is not right.”

Margaret Anne Shuham: "Making a Difference"

As some of you know, my name is Margaret Dore and I am Margaret Shuham’s niece. We are both pictured in the photo, together. She was my mother’s [Mary Dore’s] sister. I would like to share some of my remembrances of Margie, as well as what I think is a point of her life for all of us.

My friend Lisa [Walterskirchen] asked me about my first memory of Margie, and I don’t think I have one. It was more like she [Margie] was always there. She was this calm woman with well coiffed hair, who would do fun things with us, i.e., me, my brothers and sisters.

Sometimes she would take us to play on the swings at Madison Park [in Seattle]; other times we would feed the ducks or just take a “spin” in her car. Margie would give us joy with the small things.

Margie was always so calm, I thought that she was my mother’s younger sister. She was actually 13 years older.

Over the next 30 years or so, Margie was always there. Then in maybe 1999, when she was 83, we started walking Greenlake.  2.8 miles just to get around the lake, plus walking to and from my car to get to the lake.

Interview With State Senator Mike Padden on TVW, Thursday 10/04/24 at 7 pm

Senator Padden:

As mentioned in my most recent e-newsletter, I sat down for a “farewell interview” with Austin Jenkins, the host of TVW’s "Inside Olympia" show. 

The interview focused on my 28-year career in the Legislature and some of the key issues I focused on during my years in the House and Senate. The interview will be shown for the first time on TVW this Thursday (October 3) at 7 p.m. 

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For a short summary of Senator Padden 's life and career, please see below.

My Personal Experience With Assisted Suicide

By Margaret Dore

In another life, most likely in 1980 when I was 23 years old, I talked three young men down from suicide.

What I think happened is that a final exit network type person had given them my phone number by mistake. This was before the age of caller ID.

I was contacted by each of the three young men over a period of time, each one wanting assistance to kill himself. 

I called a suicide prevention person to ask what I should do, i.e., with regard to the first one. The person told me to ask the suicidal person why? To engage him.