Fri Jun 9, 2023 – 2:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — An elementary school teacher in Glendale, California was suspended after speaking out at a school board meeting in opposition to radical transgender ideology, The Daily Signal reported Tuesday.
“Gender is binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is not hate,” said Ray Shelton, a fifth grade teacher at Mark Keppel Elementary School in Glendale during an April 18 meeting for the Glendale Unified School District (GUSD)’s school board. Shelton also recently gained national attention for defending biological reality against transgender ideology on an episode of Dr. Phil.
GUSD is the same district that voted to integrate LGBT ideology and celebrations into its classrooms for “pride” month, sparking outrage from parents that boiled over into a widely-reported physical brawl in which largely Armenian and Hispanic dads faced off against leftist counter protesters earlier this week.
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Shelton, who has taught for 25 years and openly states that he is homosexual, had argued during the April school board meeting that “[g]ender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological disorders.”
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