Fri Jan 13, 2023 – 4:54 pm EST
PARIS, Maine (LifeSiteNews) – A Maine community has voted to oust two members of the Oxford Hills School Board, including its director, over their support of hiding confused students’ gender “transitions” from their parents.
The Daily Caller reported that by a 333-243 vote, residents of the town of Paris recalled school board director Sarah Otterson and member Julia Lester (who resigned prior to the vote) after the two endorsed a policy proposed in October that would not only allow students who claim to be transgendered to use opposite-sex restrooms and lockers, but withhold from parents any conversations between such students and teachers about their “identity.”
The proposal was introduced in the name of “keep[ing] all of our children safe,” Oxford Hills interim superintendent Heather Manchester claimed. Many Oxford Hills parents and residents do not see it that way.
“I feel that parents do have the right to know what is going on in their schools, especially with their children,” Michaele Flanders said. “And I don’t think that was right for them to make those decisions without informing the parents.”
Another resident, Lesli Olson, defended the policy on the grounds
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