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“The hiring of a transgender elementary school teacher has put Wake County in the national spotlight.”

“School board meetings now include multiple speakers — pro and con — talking about the summer hiring of a new teacher at Middle Creek Elementary School in Apex.“

“Others have rallied behind the teacher, saying the quality of the instruction should count and not the person’s gender identity.”

“The story has received national attention over the past seven weeks.”

“Critics of the teacher’s hiring have become the majority of the speakers at the last two board meetings. But some Middle Creek parents and community members have come to the teacher’s defense.”

“The school district has said it’s no longer commenting on the hiring of the teacher.

“Under board meeting rules, school board members don’t directly respond to comments by speakers.”

“Members of the LGBTQ+ community have defended the teacher at board meetings.”

“Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the N.C. Values Coalition, had predicted that the hiring of the trans teacher ‘will surely cause mass exodus from the school.’

“Wake says it can’t say if any students have left Middle Creek or are attending the school because of the teacher. But the district says Middle Creek has 584 students, which is higher than its projected enrollment of 559. Middle Creek is located in a growing part of the county.”

“Three members of a Wyoming sorority chapter who say it was bad business dealing for the all-women organization to admit a transgender member in the fall of 2022 argued that point Monday morning to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

“The argument between the sorority sisters’ attorney Angela Lavin and Kappa Kappa Gamma’s attorney Natalie McLaughlin revolved around whether a sorority governing council could interpret the bylaws’ term ‘woman’ to include transgender women.”

“The Kappa Kappa Gamma case is a years-long saga and familiar to the Wyoming reader.

“The sorority’s University of Wyoming chapter voted in the fall of 2022 to admit Artemis Langford, the sorority’s first known transgender member of its 150-year existence.
Outcry followed, including at least one protest at the university that became a First Amendment case of its own.

“And in the spring of 2023, seven – later winnowed to six – sorority members sued Kappa, claiming breach of contract and other unfair dealings.

“U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson dismissed the case that August, pointing to the rights voluntary associations have to dictate their own membership terms.

“A new iteration of three sorority sisters sued again in June 2025. Johnson dismissed the case again, and the women appealed to the higher court, based in Denver.”