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Rantz: Seattle Fire hired ‘anti-male’ partisan to investigate gender discrimination
The Seattle Fireplace Division’s new Equal Employment Alternative Investigator (Strategic Advisor 2) has a controversial historical past. She’s been concerned in two lawsuits for allegations of gender bias, with one lawsuit labeling her “anti-male.”
Jyl Shaffer landed in Seattle after holding two controversial positions at two separate schools. She was named as a defendant in two lawsuits alleging gender bias and a scarcity of due course of rights for the accused. SFD management was conscious of the lawsuits after they interviewed and subsequently employed her.
The place’s essential duty at SFD is to research and resolve office complaints. These embrace complaints of gender discrimination and hostile office. However given Shaffer’s historical past, some throughout the division now marvel how males can be handled if she is concerned with the investigation.
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Seattle Fireplace’s questionable rent
After almost three and a half years with King County Metro, Shaffer was employed by SFD. Her hiring was introduced internally throughout the final two weeks, in accordance with a supply. The rent has some SFD staffers involved.
Shaffer began as Montana State College’s director of the Workplace of Institutional Fairness and Title IX coordinator in April 2016. However 4 months later, the Bozeman Each day Chronicle stated Shaffer left the place. Shaffer was named in a lawsuit by a pupil who stated she favored transgender college students over straight male college students.
After privately expressing his objections on transgenderism to one in every of his professors, pupil Erik Powell was banned from campus. Based on studies, Shaffer claimed his feedback had been threats. However, the lawsuit alleges, neither the dean of scholars workplace nor campus police believed the feedback had been threats warranting campus elimination. Powell, by his attorneys, says he was focused as a result of his so-called sufferer is transgender.
Based on studies, Shaffer instructed the transgender pupil she was “an aspiring ally” and stated, “I’m grateful you trusted us.”
The lawsuit additionally claimed Shaffer “has firmly held anti-male beliefs that she shared on her Twitter account.” It cited a tweet labeling an article about “entitled poisonous masculinity” as “correct AF [as f***].” Shaffer’s bio stated she’s “an aspiring ally” into “queer stuff.”
MSU settled the lawsuit with Powell for $120,000 after the varsity did not persuade a choose to toss the lawsuit. Roughly seven months later, Shaffer took a job as EEO Investigations/Program Supervisor at King County Metro.
This wasn’t the one lawsuit she was concerned in.
A second lawsuit about bias
Shaffer was a Title IX coordinator on the College of Cincinnati between October 2014 and March 2016, in accordance with her LinkedIn web page.
Scholar Tyler Gischel alleged gender discrimination after being discovered answerable for sexual assault. However he claimed in a lawsuit that investigators ignored the allegation that the accuser was not as drunk as she claimed and that she was romantically concerned with the college police detective dealing with the case.
Based on studies, the varsity additionally knew that Gischel could have been too intoxicated to consent to sexual conduct with the girl who later accused him of assault. She allegedly kissed and groped an intoxicated Gischel, however the college didn’t examine.
Shaffer was one of many defendants named within the go well with. Court docket paperwork point out the lawsuit was later settled.
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Why rent a partisan?
Why would SFD rent such a partisan for an company that’s overwhelmingly staffed by males when her alleged bias is towards them?
An SFD spokesperson acknowledges that the division was conscious of the lawsuits and that Shaffer “underwent a number of interviews and was provided the place based mostly on her success within the choice course of.”
Firefighters and medics have lengthy complained that, beneath Fireplace Chief Harold Scoggins, the division has grow to be unnecessarily political and woke. Staffers routinely complain that Scoggins is much less fascinated with preventing fires and serving to in medical emergencies and extra fascinated with making political factors. It explains why, throughout a staffing disaster, Scoggins has been extra engaged in phrase policing.
After an nameless grievance claimed the time period “brown out” (which is used to categorize an SFD unit as unstaffed) was racist, Scoggins banned its use. However the complainant was a fraud, admitting to the Jason Rantz Present on KTTH that he made the phony grievance to focus on the out-of-control political correctness of the division. Even after discovering out it was a phony grievance, SFD wouldn’t reverse its choice.
It’s unclear why Shaffer left King County Metro, however an company spokesperson confirmed that she resigned from her function. Given her historical past, this doesn’t look like SFD employees can be finest served.
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