Vermont School District Fires Woodstock Union High School Coach for Saying That Men and Women Have Different DNA

A school district fired an employee because he stated a fact about human biology. When will the madness stop? This is how far debased the culture is.

David Bloch, who was a snowboarding coach at Woodstock Union High School in Vermont for 12 years, said that men and women are different, a fact that has been true since God made Adam and Eve, and a fact that will remain true until no more humans exist.

But the school district has prostrated itself before a different god.

The superintendent accused Bloch of violating a harassment, hazing, and bullying policy and Vermont Principals’ Association policy.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Bloch’s legal counsel, filed a lawsuit on his behalf. The lower court ruled against him, denying his request to be reinstated. Bloch this week filed a notice to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

What started this mess? Bloch and his team were waiting to compete against a team that included a teenage boy pretending to be a girl. He and his students were discussing the matter, and Bloch said that men and women have different DNA — a biological fact. Men have XY chromosomes, and women have XX chromosomes.

Bloch called the man a man — also a biological fact. The teenage boy in question didn’t hear any of this, according to AFL, but someone present reported Bloch. The next day, the superintendent immediately terminated him.

The school district violated Bloch’s constitutional rights, including his right to due process. AFL said the bureaucrats didn’t give him notice of any allegations before firing him, didn’t give him a copy of the investigative report, and didn’t inform him of his right to appeal. The superintendent told him the investigation wasn’t even complete.

Mathew Hoffmann, ADF Legal Counsel, said that for merely expressing a biological fact “and questioning the appropriateness of a teenage male competing against teenage females in an athletic competition, school district officials unconstitutionally fired him.”

The First Amendment protects Bloch, Hoffmann added, and he “has the right to freely express his views on a matter of profound public concern without government punishment.”

Photo credit: Alliance Defending Freedom

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