As we recently noted, members of the girls’ volleyball team at Randolph Union High School in Vermont are not comfortable sharing a locker room with a transgender member of the team and have been singled out for objecting.
A father of one of the girls is a soccer coach at the middle school and has been suspended for using the wrong pronouns regarding the trans student.
Mary Margaret Olohan reports at the Daily Signal:
Vermont School District Suspends Father of Girl Who Pushed Back Against Biological Male in Her Locker RoomA Vermont school district under fire for allowing a biologically male student to use the girls’ locker room has suspended a father from his position as soccer coach for using male pronouns to refer to the trans-identifying student.Travis Allen has been suspended without pay from his job as the Randolph Union Middle School girls soccer coach, Orange Southwest School District Superintendent Layne Millington said in a Tuesday letter. His suspension follows a Daily Signal report highlighting his daughter’s discomfort at a biological male using her locker room while she was changing.The superintendent, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal, said that Allen was being punished because he “misgendered a transgender student in our district.”Allen’s daughter Blake is one of several young ladies who said they were in the Randolph Union High School locker room changing when the trans-identifying student, a biological male, entered the locker room.
Mary Margaret Olohan went to Vermont to speak to the girls on the volleyball team. Watch:
John Klar of the Vermont Daily Chronicle has more on what happened with the dad:
Klar: Father of Randolph volleyball whistleblower fired as soccer coachIn another twist in the twisted tale of a Vermont girls’ volleyball team ejected from their own locker room due to conflicts with a trans-identifying student who allegedly ogled them, the father of the girl who blew the changing room whistle was dismissed as soccer coach when he refused to publicly apologize for calling the trans student a “boy.” Aside from issues of privacy or gender identification, this raises important questions about government infringement of fundamental free speech rights under the United States and Vermont Constitutions.The father’s sentiment was not that extreme. In response to a comment by the mother of the trans student on social media, Travis Allen wrote:“I am the father of the girl you claim ‘made up a story for attention,’” Travis Allen wrote in a Facebook reply to Sivvy. “The truth is your son watched my daughter and multiple other girls change in the locker room. While he got a free show, they got violated.”The father added: “You think this is fine and dandy. I wonder how you would feel if I watched you undress?”
On the transgender issue, the left is pushing the public too far, too fast, and too hard. We see evidence of that constantly.
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