multimillionaire Elon Musk weighed in Saturday on the story of a Vermont family who spoke out against a biological man using his daughter’s dressing room.
Musk, who owns Twitter, appealed the Orange Southwest School District Board’s decision to punish Travis Allen and Blake Allen “incredibly unfair” when he responded to a tweet from Riley Gainesan outspoken advocate for equity in women’s sports who swam against a biologically male athlete at the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.
“So happy for volleyball player and friend, Blake Allen,” Gaines said, posting a screenshot of The Daily Signal’s report on the Allens. “For being uncomfortable stripping next to a boy in her locker room, she was suspended from school and her father lost his job. She was told he would only let her in if she publicly apologized for her feelings of discomfort.”
Travis Allen had been a high school football coach in the Orange Southwest School District until he talked about his daughter having to share a locker room with a biological man.
“Your legal action and 2023 is necessary to maintain girls’ ability to consent when it comes to undressing for/being exposed to the opposite sex,” Gaines added.
Gaines, a 12-time All-American and three-time Southeastern Conference champion, he first shared his story with The Daily Wire after tying with Thomas in the 200 freestyle in March at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Championships. Despite harassment, threats and violence, she has continued to speak out and become a prominent national advocate.
The daily signal reported Thursday that the Allen family had reached a settlement with the school district that required the Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust to pay $125,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees and costs to the Allen family.
Under the settlement, the district will reinstate Travis Allen as the high school’s football coach and clear school records of any disciplinary records against Travis Allen and his daughter Blake.
In addition, the settlement requires the Orange Southwest School District Board and school officials named in the Allens’ lawsuit to remove any content posted online by the school related to the locker room business, as well as from the bulletin board. Randolph Union Middle/High announcements or boards. School shows messages of “love and support” to trans-identifying student.
The Alliance Defending Freedom hailed the settlement as a major victory for the Allen family.
“The settlement in the Blake and Travis Allen case is a resounding victory for free speech,” Phil Sechler, senior attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Signal on Thursday.
“Pushing a man on a man shouldn’t have cost Travis his job and gotten Blake kicked out of school,” he added. “We are very pleased that the school has agreed to do the right thing by returning Travis to his coaching job and dropping the discipline against Blake. Everyone has the right to speak freely, and we appreciate that this settlement further protects that right.”
In their lawsuit filed in October, the Allens said they were “punished for expressing their views on a matter of deep public concern: whether a teenage male who ‘identifies’ as female should be able to change in the girls’ locker room, regardless of how uncomfortable the girls in that room are.”
“In objecting to having a man in the room while the girls change, Travis and Blake made comments emphasizing that the trans-identifying student is in fact a man, even through the use of of male pronouns,” said the lawsuit, which was detailed. first obtained by The Daily Signal. “Indeed, his view of student masculinity was central to his views on the appropriate use of the locker room.”
“However, his comments were too much for the transgender orthodoxy of the defendants: Travis was deemed to have ‘spoiled’ the student, while Blake was found guilty of ‘harassment’ and ‘bullying’ , so the defendants disciplined them both.”
The daily signal reported for the first time that Travis Allen had been suspended without pay from his job as Randolph Union Middle School girls soccer coach for calling the trans student male. His suspension followed a Daily Signal video and report highlighting Blake’s discomfort with a biological male using his dressing room while changing. Jessica Allen, Blake’s mother, also spoke out in the video.
Several of Blake’s fellow students who spoke to The Daily Signal said they asked the student to leave, but said the student did not immediately. The girls said that the student stood in the corner and watched them while they changed, making them feel uncomfortable.
The Orange Southwest School District board did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment.
Musk also waded into the transgender debate earlier this week, when he took steps to allow The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh’s documentary, “What is a Woman?” to be distributed on Twitter. Jeremy Boreing, co-CEO of The Daily Wire, tweeted Thursday: “Twitter canceled deal with @realdailywire to release what is a woman for free on the platform due to two cases of “gender misogyny”, referring to the practice of calling a person by their sex rather than their newly adopted gender identity.
Musk later tweeted: “This was a mistake by a lot of people on Twitter. It’s definitely allowed.” Musk also later tweeted a recommendation for the film, saying, “Every parent should watch this.”
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