Destin Holmes, the SPLC and a bigoted school principle

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Via Butterflies and Wheels Blog
How the Principle ever got his job I do not understand.

Please re-post on the main LGBT group. I was banned for trying to be sarcastic and seeming to imply there really was an agenda

SPLC files suit to stop anti-LGBT harassment by students and faculty in Mississippi’s Moss Point School District

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in federal court today to stop pervasive anti-LGBT bullying and harassment committed by students – and even faculty members and administrators – within the schools of Mississippi’s Moss Point School District.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Destin Holmes, a district student who endured such severe harassment she was eventually driven out of school. She temporarily left the district in March 2012 to be homeschooled after the then-principal at Magnolia Junior High School called her a “pathetic fool” and told her, “I don’t want a dyke in this school.”

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During her time at Magnolia Junior High School, students and district staff called Destin slurs such as “it,” “freak” and “he-she.” Destin heard such insults as many as 20 times a day. She also was denied access to the girls’ restroom by a teacher. Another teacher even refused to allow her to participate in a classroom activity where teams were divided by gender because Destin – according to the teacher – was an “in-between it.”