English Teacher Convinces High School Football Team To Hold ‘Drag Ball’ Halftime Show To Let ‘Boys Express An Effeminate Side’

Burlington Excessive College hosted a “drag ball” throughout Friday evening’s soccer sport halftime. Placed on by the varsity’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) membership, the present featured college students and academics wearing drag apparel.

About thirty contributors, most of them male, strutted the monitor in a combination of robes, clothes, high-heeled boots, feather boas, colourful wigs and different equipment with techno music taking part in within the background. College students within the stands, decked out in rainbow apparel, cheered them on.

Andrew LeValley, an English trainer and advisor to the GSA membership, stated the varsity’s principal and athletic director have been “on board excitedly,” according to Seven Days. Tom Flanagan, the Burlington superintendent, joined in carrying a rainbow cape and holding a rainbow flag, Seven Days reported.

“I feel it’s laborious for boys to precise an effeminate aspect of themselves, and sometimes that may be the aspect they love essentially the most,” LeValley informed Seven Days.

Insurance policies concerning gender identification and transgender college students have embroiled college boards in controversy over the previous yr.

The Loudoun County, Virginia, school board voted to permit college students to make use of loos primarily based on their gender identification relatively than their organic intercourse three months after a boy carrying a skirt allegedly raped a feminine pupil in an area college’s ladies’ restroom.

The varsity didn’t disclose the assault or the second sexual assault the identical boy allegedly dedicated months later to oldsters till The Daily Wire broke the story.