CorpusRecord 210976

LCPS school board meeting draws large crowds as rights of transgender students are discussed

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Source
YouTube / WUSA9
Date
2021-06-22
Location
Washington County, MS
Material
Transcript
Extent
307 words · about 2 min
Collected
2026-06-26

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001now louden county school officials have a meeting about the rights of students who are transgender the school board is discussing access to restrooms sports and preferred pronouns a loudoun county teacher who you see right there whom you see there rather tanner cross he was recently suspended for refusing to address students by their gender identity our tom dempsey is live outside the loudoun county school building right now and i see a number of people behind you there tom what are they telling you well lorenzo like you were saying this case has gotten national attention for the loudoun county public schools and this line behind me is just to get into this loudoun county public school school boards meeting happening at this hour again this all revolves around those controversial comments made by leesburg elementary school teacher

002tanner cross saying he would not recognize transgender students by their chosen names and pronouns this line that you're seeing is attention on this school board meeting again it all revolves around policies that the school board is considering right now to give more rights to transgender students and to recognize transgender students names and pronouns we've been speaking to supporters from both sides there's a gathering of transgender student supporters on that side who are talking to us about the concerns they see with this the comments that were made by tanner cross and the concerns and the message it sends that that statement sends but again this is all about public comments coming in about those policies that the school board is considering we know over 200 people are planning on speaking with this supporters of tanner cross

003say the school board went too far putting him on administrative leave and it violated his free speech while the supporters of transgender students again believe that this sends kind of a harmful message to them the the statement that tanner cross made so we're going to be keeping close attention on this meeting we do expect it to last quite a while as we said with over 200 public comments expected this evening for it all outside the loudoun county public schools building i'm tom dempsey wusa9

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