Lumberton ISD suspends trans teacher after parents complain her gender identity is a 'distraction'
By Anna Waugh
Dallas Voice, Posted on 09 Apr 2014 at 12:47pm
http://www.dallasvoice.com/lumberton-isd-suspends-trans-teacher-parents-complain-gender-identity-distraction-10170767.htmlA substitute teacher was told this week she shouldn't return to the fifth grade class she was teaching in after parents complained about her being transgender.
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It's unclear how her gender identity became an issue. Klug said she's never discussed it in front of students and has always done her job well without any previous complaints.
"I have always conducted myself in a professional manner and would never discuss my gender identity in school," Klug said.
But some parents are now uncomfortable with her teaching their students.
Roger Beard, whose son was in the class Klug was subbing, said he thinks having a trans teacher to young students is "a very big distraction."
"If it does affect my child and his ability to learn or if it causes questions that I don't feel are appropriate then undoubtedly there's an issue with having somebody transgender, transsexual or transvestite, to be teaching that age group," Beard said.
