Minnesota students protest anti-LGBTQ+ presentation approved by education board
A Minnesota school board has agreed to hear from an anti-LGBTQ+ organisation despite protests from students and faculty. Becker School District board has confirmed a presentation from Minnesota Child Protection League (MNCPL), an anti-LGBTQ+ group based in Minnesota, according to Southern Poverty Law Centre.
The Minnesota school board’s decision to allow the presentation has been granted in an effort to “the other side” as a talk was given by the LGBTQ+ group OutFront Minnesota in January.
The board agreed upon a presentation to be made on March 14 by MNCPL, The Hill reports. “The response from the kids is they were glad to have [OutFront], but the response from the school board then was right away, they needed to hear the other side of this,” Becker High School teacher and Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) advisor Heather Abrahamson told St.
Cloud Times. “I don’t understand how you could think there’s another side to human rights, but they claim that there is.” Students who protested the presentation vocally opposed the association of MNCPL with their school board. “This is disgusting,” Skyler Seiler, a Transgender student at the school, told Fox 9. “I can’t believe this, we are humans too.
