In a move rarely seen, a local teachers union has “expelled” one of its members.

Rochester school district student counselor Christina Barton (who voiced concern over transgender and gender-expansive administrative “guidelines” that she was “warned” against making public) recently received a letter from the Rochester Education Association stating she had violated the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) “code of ethics” and was therefore being expelled from the union.

The union claimed that Barton “mischaracterized Rochester Public Schools policies and practices regarding LGBTQ+ students, spoke negatively of fellow union members, and spread misinformation about transgender youth” in her Alpha News YouTube interview. “…[W]e find your interview to be in violation of NEA code of ethics Principal 1 (2, 3, 4, 5),” the letter continued.