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Middle School Coach Reinstated After Suspension For Misgendering A Student

A middle school coach in Vermont has been reinstated after being suspended for alleged sex misconduct against a student by the school district, according to ABC News.

Travis Allen, women’s soccer coach at Randolph Union Middle and High School lawsuit The superintendent of the Orange Southwest School District was suspended for posting a post on Facebook calling a transgender girl a boy, which the Orange Southwest School District superintendent said was misgendered. In October, he filed a lawsuit against the school in response to what he had seen. A settlement with the district got Mr. Allen back to work and his suspension without pay was expunged from the records. according to To ABC News. (Related: Exclusive: School district sues over policy punishing students for ‘wrong gender’ people)

Allen’s return came after the school district agreed to settle the other allegations in the lawsuit with the coach and his daughter. Her daughter, Blake Allen, was suspended for two days after yelling at a transgender student who allegedly watched Blake and her teammates get dressed in the locker room, according to the complaint. It is The student is the same student Allen mentioned in the Facebook post, and the school district agreed to pay her daughter and coach $125,000 as part of the settlement.

According to the complaint, Blake Allen made several comments to classmates about the biological man in the girls’ locker room, which the school district deemed bullying and “gender identity harassment.” As part of the original settlement, Blake Allen’s suspension and bullying report were expunged from her records.

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School districts across the country are debating whether to separate bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams based on biological sex or gender identity. In Idaho, the school board reversed a policy allowing use of restrooms and changing rooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex after backlash from the community. California high school students have protested a state law allowing students to use the restroom based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

The Orange Southwest School District and the law firm representing Allen, Alliance Defending Freedom, did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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