Christian School Settles With Vermont for $566K Over Trans Athlete Dispute
“We were all in agreement that the right decision was to not compromise our beliefs and to withdraw, but the conversation with the players was the hardest”
This is a huge win for the school and a victory against the trans lobby.
FOX News reports:
Vermont pays $566K in damages, legal fees to Christian school it banned from all sports competitions for years
State education agencies in Vermont have paid over $566,000 in damages and legal fees to a Christian school that was banned from all sports and academic competitions for two years after its girls’ basketball team refused to compete against a trans athlete in 2023.
A settlement agreement following mediation was finalized on Tuesday that awarded the plaintiffs, including the Mid Vermont Christian School and its law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the $566,000.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Vermont Principals’ Association and the Vermont State Board of Education for a response.
The settlement comes after a years-long saga in which all the school’s sports teams, and even its academic teams, like spelling bee and mathletes, had to travel out of state to compete against other schools.
The conflict dates back to an afternoon early in the 2023 school year at Mid Vermont Christian, when the school decided to forfeit a girls’ basketball postseason game against a team with a trans athlete.
Their Christian faith was more important to them than a game. But it was still a hard call, and it brought some tears.
“We were all in agreement that the right decision was to not compromise our beliefs and to withdraw, but the conversation with the players was the hardest,” Mid Vermont Christian girls’ basketball coach Chris Goodwin told Fox News Digital.
“Because you play a 20-game season, and you put in the work and the expectation is that you enter the postseason tournament with a shot to see how you’re going to do and to see how far you can get. So there were some teary eyes, and some sad faces, but in the end, they all really did understand that it was the right thing to do.”
Here’s a video report:
In 2023 the girls' basketball team at a Vermont Christian school refused to play against a team that had a "transgender" (male) player.
The state banned them from competing as a punishment.
They've just won their lawsuit and the state has been ordered to pay out $566,000. https://t.co/yickMf3tZK pic.twitter.com/w1Hf2JhCGp
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state agencies have requested a new .04cent tax increase to make up for this
the taxpayers got nailed and since no one from the lefty is held accountable for their decisions
they win again
I’m wearing my MVCS t-shirt tomorrow in celebration!