A school fired an intersex teacher because a parent thought he was trans. Now he’s fighting back.

A school fired an intersex teacher because a parent thought he was trans. Now he’s fighting back.

A teacher hired by a Florida school was forced by the superintendent to either resign or be fired (with no reason given) after only three weeks. Now, Shepherd Scalf is filing a discrimination complaint with the ACLU, alleging that the district thought he was trans because he’s intersex. “Receiving this ultimatum was confusing and overwhelming. Everything had been going so well — I couldn’t understand why this was happening,” said Shepard Scalf i…

Intersex Teacher Lost His Job After Being Mistaken for Transgender

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