A middle school in Vermont has suspended a female student for opposing biological males in her locker room.
QUICK FACTS:
- A Vermont middle school suspended a student for “misgendering” another student after opposing allowing biological males in the female locker room, Fox News reported.
- Soccer coach Travis Allen was suspended from his job at Randolph Union Middle School for expressing his concern over a 14-year-old transgender female sharing the same locker room with his daughter and other female students.
- “I made a social media post and referred to the male student as a male, and I was punished because I misgendered him,” Allen told TV host Tucker Carlson.
- Allen’s daughter Blake claimed she complained to the school, but nothing was done.
- “I was in the locker room and the trans student walked in and the rest of the team was in there. I was really uncomfortable, and I left, and I told the school, and they just shut me down, that there was nothing they could do,” she said. “I was later suspended because I voiced my opinion that a male shouldn’t be in the women’s locker room.”
LAWYER TYSON LANGHOFER ON THE SCHOOL’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL SUSPENSION:
“They’re trying to force their ideology down everybody’s throat and then punish anybody that has a different viewpoint. That’s unconstitutional,” Langhofer said.
BACKGROUND:
- Earlier this month, Spain’s main mental health specialist organization announced the country was about to pass one of the most radical transgender laws in the world.
- The new “Trans Law” would allow anyone over the age of 16 to change their “gender” and to be treated as the opposite sex, including being able to access bathrooms and compete in sports of their desired gender.
- Children between 12 and 14 years of age will no longer need parental consent to alter their gender, but will only need a judge’s approval.
- Health specialists are concerned that once passed, the law would prohibit professionals from intervening in the process. The law “jeopardizes the comprehensive medical care to which all children are entitled” and ignores that “in all judicial decisions relevant to the life of the minor, the best interests of the minor must prevail,” said Luisa Lázaro, the president of the Spanish Association of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry (AEPNyA).
Jon Fleetwood contributed to this piece.
