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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve never said survivors “had to” follow TW — everyone makes their own decisions. My point is about my own choice: I don’t support a club that appears to minimize or deflect when these issues come up.

You do you.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. The segment on TW/sexual harassment at was teased at the top of the 5pm news… and then poof, gone. Totally normal. Nothing to see here, right DCSC?

DCSC just made themselves look even more suspicious, protecting abusers instead of victims.[/quote]
Sounds like T again. There are real victims out there.  T is a grown man who got hit on.  We’ve seen the texts he sent to everyone in DC. He didn’t bring this up until he was caught being shady. Can we stop this charade. She shouldn’t have hit on him and she received her punishment. It’s time he to faced his own and end this embarrassment. T did something wrong. full stop. Everyone is sorry he got hit on but this is ruining the soccer experience for so many people. [/quote]
I’m not Tom. I’m a soccer parent — my kid was with Brookland FC, and we followed Tom to DCSC because he’s one of the few coaches who consistently put kids’ safety and well-being above politics and ego.

And let’s be real: I am a survivor of sexual harassment and assault. I stayed silent for years because of people like you — people who mock, minimize, and shame victims until they give up. I buried it and carried that trauma until therapy decades later. So don’t you dare tell me what a “real victim” looks like.

I’ve sat through (and even faked) enough SafeSport trainings to know what Michelle did to Tom was a blatant violation of policy. Dismissing it as “a grown man who got hit on” is sickening. That’s the exact culture that protects abusers, silences victims, and tells everyone else to just “get over it.”

This isn’t about soccer being “ruined.” It’s about whether we tolerate a system that looks the other way when coaches cross the line. And by mocking this, you’ve made yourself part of the problem. If one of your own children were ever harassed and you responded like this, you’d be failing them in the most unforgivable way.

Shame on you.

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Where is the assumption coming that nothing was done about it? Or that it wasn’t taken seriously?

I am seriously trying to understand how people know so much about how this was handled? Is this forum your source of information?

There are other parents in the club who are SA survivors and they didn’t follow TW.
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What is making you think that it has been minimized or deflect? an open discussion in this forum?[/quote]

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