A woke teacher ranted about Donald Trump's rollbacks on transgender and DEI programs during a Washington State House of Representatives committee hearing.
Tracy Castro-Gill, 49, the former leader of the Seattle Public School District's Ethnic Studies program, took the podium at a House Committee on Education public hearing on Thursday to complain about Trump's measures.
'My name is Dr. Tracy Castro-Gill, my pronouns are they/them. I am a disabled queer Chicanx educator and scholar in Washington state with my expertise on curriculum and instruction,' Castro-Gill said in her long-winded tirade.
'These were markers that were made illegal recently in the federal government. However, my very presence and humanity is in opposition to that legislation.
'I want to remind us that George Orwell, in his novel 1984, warned us about limiting how we are allowed to define ourselves and our experiences and how that allows fascism to take root.'
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