By Michael Bielawski
Concern for freedom of speech and support for girls’ sports are highlighted in legal action taken against transgender activism in Vermont schools. Also, more information has surfaced about apparent media censorship demanded by the transgender advocacy group Outright Vermont. Here’s a roundup.
Christian school banned from competitions
Mid-Vermont Christian Academy has a lawsuit against the Vermont Principals Association because they banned the school from participating in state sports or academic competitions over a transgender-related controversy.
What happened was in early 2023 the Christian school forfeited a game with Long Trail School over their male athlete on a girl’s basketball team.
In an update on Fox News recently, the coach and his lawyer detailed that they are confident they will win their lawsuit.
The lawsuit says that the state “is not entitled, nor is it constitutional, to force private, religious schools across the state to follow that orthodoxy as a condition to participating in Vermont’s tuitioning program and the State’s athletic association.”
On Thursday, it was reported that Long Trail went all the way to the state championship this year with a male athlete playing at center. There have been lots of reactions on X to the game, which Long Trail lost just by 3 points in overtime.
@checkmark9001 wrote, “Shame on Vermont for putting girls in danger, allowing males in girls sports, displacing a girl for a male on a girls’ team, teaching students cheating and lying is acceptable, destroying girls’ hopes & dreams and destroying girls’ history for everyone.”
Another by @Denise13F said, “No surprise here, my bet is on the boys team to take the girls champion pin. If you want coed go coed, you want women or girls go women or go girls, if you want boys or men go… well you get the picture! But girls against boys for competition is unfair play. Shame on Vermont.”
Fired snowboard coach wins lawsuit
Also, a longtime Woodstock snowboarding coach David Bloch who was fired last year for joining in a brief discussion with team members about transgender athletes has settled an unlawful discharge lawsuit. He won $75,000 against the Vermont Principals’ Association and the Vermont Agency of Education.
Bloch said that boys have an advantage over girls in sports due to their bone structure and testosterone, which is reportedly all it took for his troubles to begin.
Similar to past lawsuits in Vermont involving transgender-related conflicts in sports, the public will pay the bill for this failed effort to promote the transgender movement.
“The payments will be made on behalf of the school district, the VPA, and the Vermont AOE, Matthew W. Hoffmann, an attorney with ADF, said,” reported VDC.
WCAX takes down report
WCAX had reported on a transgender-related sports controversy, but an activist group asked the media company to take down the report and they complied.
First published on March 3, 2023, the story covers the Randolph High School girls’ volleyball team which was banned from its locker room while the school investigated a conflict involving a transgender member on their team.
One of the students, Blake Allen, told WCAX, “I feel like for stating my opinion — that I don’t want a biological man changing with me — that I should not have harassment charges or bullying charges.”
When the group Outright Vermont insisted that they take the report down and apologize, WCAX promptly did both despite no evidence nor accusations that anything in the story was factually inaccurate.
Outright Vermont then continued to shame WCAX, saying the media outlet didn’t go far enough in condemning its report. The original report which has since disappeared from WCAX can be read here.
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can we ever get beyond the pervert drama/// out house vermont has been pounding on this for over twenty years/// there are some things in life normal people will not accept/// get over it///
There are valid reasons that advanced societies have traditionally accepted the idea of certain activities and venues being segregated by sex/gender, and the criteria has ALWAYS been anatomical. Most of us “western” cultures are perfectly ok with segregating changing facilities/ bathrooms, our prison system and some sports, and this is mostly done for the protection of women. In the case of sports, there is also the issue of competitiveness. Now that we are supposed to regard “gender” as a social construct and a matter of personal psychology, that shouldn’t change the anatomical standard for those aforementioned venues. Homosexuals have been around forever, and their psychology of whom they are attracted to has never determined which restroom or locker room they use or which prison they may be sent to. With homosexuals, the criteria has always been anatomical, NOT psychological. Why should it be any different for those with gender confusion issues? It’s not that complicated. Perhaps people are beginning to figure it out that it is not worth turning some societal norms completely upside down just to please a small minority of mentally impaired people and their advocates. Be whatever gender you choose, color your hair purple and dangle whatever metal objects that you like from holes you make in your face, shoot whatever substances you like into your veins, just dont expect everyone to respect your choices.
Know them by their actions, they will tax everything on the planet, if allowed, but notice they won’t touch taxing porn?
They won’t raise the tax on marijuana sales because they know it would dampen business, to they do know what they are doing when the tax heavily and don’t tax heavily…..
And it they want things to grow like crazy….no tax or regulations at all. Which is why our drug epidemic and sexual exploitations are all insane.
No permit needed to deal heroin. Shooting guns with friends is a different story.
Yuri Bezmanov said, when we subvert a country, we try and confuse the populace about their sexuality. My first thought was, what an insane idea, nobody would fall for that. Now I’m realizing the evil genius that it truly is.
Interesting reference: https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/lin-biaos-curse-of-trans?utm_source=email-ufi&triedRedirect=true
A man by the name of Dr. John Money, twin boys, David and Brian Reimer, and Johns Hopkins University, circa 1967 onward. Look into it and make sure you haven’t had lunch yet or you’ll be losing it after reading what they did to David. Both David and Brian are deceased now – their endings tragic.
The good news is Americans voting with their wallets is making a serious impact on the corporate woke front. The boycotts of Planet Fitness, Tyson Foods, Doritos, Advil, etc. is causing stocks to plummet and board rooms to flipout. The achilles heal of the giant corps is losing big money makes them pivot and scramble.
bad article. trans people are great and there should be more of them
If everyone was gay or transgender, in one generation, there would be no more humans…If you value the perpetuation of the human race, thank a straight person.
A non-sequitur. You Left fascists practice obfuscation. You rehearse it. The issue, as you are aware, is the excesses. Caitlin Jenner, Dr. Erica Anderson, etc., have spoken out against the excesses, even crimes, People who demand obedience simply because they’re transgendered.
No sad they weren’t, a school shouldn’t be punished for not allowing biological males which they are in female sports or areas of safety.
Not in the sport of the biological gender! Wth do you not understand??
@val
Not in the sport of the biological gender! Wth do you not understand??
Have our educators ever studied clinical schizophrenia WRT gender dysphoria?
Unfortunately at this point in Vermont politics it’s too little to late.
As a law professor for 33 years I can only say that the right to express opinions is sacrosanct to the first amendment.. here it is strengthened by Title IX which requires schools l to treat women’s sport opportunities and a women’s right to compete as equal to a males opportunity. There is a compelling argument that forcing a female to compete in sports against biological males violates the principal is of title IX. I suspect this question will reach the Supreme Court in due time. Will WCAXrefuse to report this story she it happens?
Where are all these pink pussy hats feminists, standing for women in women’s sports,
hiding, as we all know they were all just hype for that moment !!
Helen Reddy sang, I am a woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore !! well apparently not, I guess those days are gone, You can play in women’s sports even if you have a penis……………………. pathetic.
Real feminism from a civil rights, Title Nine standpoint has been replaced by…not sure what, but it is dead and buried.
The Greeks had great wisdom for all the ages…
Socrates: “When bodies become effeminate, souls get much weaker as well.”
WCAX also did not report on the gay 73 year old man that was knocked down and injured at a Pride event.
One would have to be brain dead not to recognize that Outright VT, with its outsized power, and WCAX are bedfellows. Neither is innocent of censoring speech.
First of all, it certainly appears that from the start the Pride Center targeted Vermont’s small size to exploit and gain power.
WCAX did more stories on Fern Feather’s murder than any other media, including having the Pride Center on for its Sunday Morning show.
Gov Scott and Burlington’s City Council also grant the Pride Center an outsized voice.
I know from experience about the PC’s censoring. A discussion group I am familiar with was meeting at the Center for 4 years. Topic next up was eugenics, they were told they couldn’t talk about it. When they pushed back. They were kicked out.
In its trans activist role WCAX was doing stories on ‘people who pump in the workplace’ and ‘people who have painful menstruation’. When I called them out, they called me a hateful transphobe. I called them out publicly at a city council meeting.
WCAX, once reputable and trustworthy reporters, are no longer. They are a trans activist club.