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A Trenton high school is an uproar after parents accused a teacher of rigging this weekend’s homecoming queen election in favor of a transgender student. The Trentonian reports:
A transgender teen was crowned Homecoming Queen at Trenton Central High School’s homecoming game Saturday, and sources with intimate knowledge of activities at the school say the vote was a fraud. A source who works at TCHS and asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution said the teacher who was in charge of the voting process for this year’s homecoming court failed to properly oversee the votes, which allowed students to stuff the ballot box as an alleged practical joke. But other sources say the teacher was involved in stuffing the ballot box and did so because she wanted to “make history.”
“We are not bashing the [transgender teen]; how [she] chooses to live [her] life is not our issue,” Marie “Murf” Antionette said. “But the teen is registered at the school as a male. So why was the teacher allowed to let this person compete with other females?” “No one at the school dislikes the [transgender teen], but this teacher had an ulterior motive,” Antionette, whose 9th-grade child attends TCHS, said. “Students who were actually involved in the homecoming process said the teacher said she didn’t care if she lost her job, and that she wanted to make history. The teacher did not get permission from any administrator to do this.”
The student who was elected homecoming king reported refuse to share the stage with “another male.”