A popular Ron Desantis-backed conservative activist is being probed by federal authorities for publicly “mocking” transgender and nonbinary students.
A Ron Desantis-backed conservative activist was named in a civil rights complaint against a Florida college — after he misgendered an educator who used ze/zir pronouns.
In one incident, the right-wing activist allegedly “mocked and misgendered” the director of New College’s Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence , Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez, after “ze was summarily fired,” according to a copy of the complaintYoleidy Rosario-Hernandez the New College’s director of OOIE was allegedly mocked by Rufo after being fired from the school.
In a March post to X, formerly known as Twitter, Rufo shared that his colleague had a preferred pronoun before referring to zir “her” and “she” in the next sentence.Rufo is also named in the complaint as allegedly stating that LGBTQ+ people have “synthetic sexual political identities” and that transgender people have “personal psychopathologies.”
The board is also being accused of being “overtly hostile towards New College students, faculty, and staff on the basis of race, gender, religion, and disability.”
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