Father and Daughter get "resounding victory" for First Amendment over transgender rage

"We don't use this bathroom, so we don't care who does" -- Staff

A Vermont female volleyball player and her dad, a school soccer coach, were reinstated by their school district after they had been punished for voicing their concerns about having a penis-laden person in the girls'  locker room. 

Travis Allen and his daughter, Blake, filed a federal lawsuit last fall against woke school officials after both were disciplined for calling a gender dysphoric student “literally a dude” and raising concerns about him being allowed to watch while 14-year-old Blake and other girls changed clothes, according to the White River Valley Herald.

As part of the legal settlement, the Orange Southwest School District’s insurance company will pay $125,000, with $5,000 going to Blake Allen, $35,000 to Travis Allen and the remaining $85,000 to their law firm, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

ADF Senior Counsel Philip A. Sechler said the settlement is a “resounding victory for freedom of speech," according to the report. “We are grateful that the school recognized it was wrong to suspend Blake from school and Travis from his coaching position simply for exercising their freedom of speech,” he said.

These school officials are like the same politicians who say the U.S. Constitution is an outdated piece of paper. But they are the first to claim their First Amendment rights when they interfere with those same rights of conservative speakers who they try to interrupt. 

“No one should lose their job or get suspended from school for voicing their opinion or calling a male a male and we are glad to see this case resolved favorably, not only for Blake and Travis, but for all students and coaches to be able to speak freely and without fear of retaliation.”

It all began in September last year when a boy student on the girls' volleyball team tried to use the girls' locker room. According to some of the girls, the boy  “stood leering at girls in various states of undress and refused to leave,” the Herald reported. [Well, well, well, shades of Will Lea Thomas all over again.]

Others claimed that he hesitated because he was unsure what to do, but left after being yelled at by a number of girls who were obviously upset from seeing a boy watching them undress.

The next day, according to the ADF website, “Blake shared her concerns with three classmates explaining that the student ‘literally is a dude,’ and ‘he doesn’t belong in the girls’ locker room.'” She knew that because he has a penis and only males have them.

The school co-principals “notified Blake she was guilty of harassment and bullying of ‘a student on the basis of the targeted student’s gender identity.'”

“As punishment,” the ADF reported, “school officials told Blake she must ‘[t]ake part in a restorative circle with … our Equity Coordinator and at least two students who can help her understand the rights of students to access public accommodations … in a manner consistent with their gender identity,’ submit a ‘reflective essay,’ and serve out-of-school suspension.”

So he has rights but she doesn't. 

Blake’s dad was also disciplined after he came to her defense by commenting on a local TV station’s Facebook page that contained a report of the incident.

A Facebook user who claimed to be the mother of the trans student accused Blake of making up the story to get attention and added that “truth will prevail.” 

Thankfully, she was right and the school lost the case.

“In response, Travis posted, ‘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,’” according to the ADF report.

When the district superintendent saw that comment, Travis was deemed to have “misgendered a transgender student.”

No, Travis called out the mental disorder which is evidently shared by the boy's mother.

Dad was suspended without pay from his job as the middle school girls’ soccer coach for the rest of the season.

In addition to the cash payment, the lawsuit settlement “scrubs the records of Travis Allen and Blake Allen of any reference to the discipline,” the Herald reported.

School district representatives tap danced around the settlement and said the language “notes that it is a compromise and ‘is not in any way to be construed as admission of liability or wrongdoing,’” according to the Herald. But it is a wrongdoing and anyone, even those of us who are not biologists, knows it.

The news outlet quoted Layne Millington, superintendent of the Orange Southwest Supervisory District, as saying “the district is pleased to resolve the lawsuit at this early stage and return our focus to educating students” [about LGBTQ+1WAP ideology and practices].  

“The Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust made the decision concerning the payment in order to cap defense expenses in what would otherwise be years of litigation,” Zir/zhe Millington continued. 

“The district has made no admission of wrongdoing. Our policies are unchanged and we will continue to comply with our policies and the law.”

They don't have to admit it--the father and daughter won the case, got reinstated and the school board lost. 

In a written statement to the Herald, Travis Allen also declared a “huge victory for freedom of speech, not just for Blake and me, but for anyone who wants to voice their opinion on important topics.”

“It was worth it,” he added. “This has taken a toll on our family, both close and distant. It showed us who will and won’t support us even if they do not agree with our values. … I wouldn’t change anything. We currently live in a time where you have to defend your values from some pretty radical ideologies.”

We also live in a time where the Left's delusions have become "their truth" but not the truth. We are doomed if we give into their reality.

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