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Stacey Adair, an award-winning teacher from Colorado, is facing scrutiny after a complaint that accused her of spreading anti-transgender messaging by wearing an “XX \u2260 XY” chromosome t-shirt to a professional development training event earlier this month.<\/p>\n

“They get an anonymous complaint \u2014 nobody said anything that day,” Adair, who was named teacher of the year<\/a> at the 2025 Teacher Freedom Summit, said. “I would say people don’t even know what it means, honestly.”<\/p>\n

“I told one of my friends that yesterday about getting in trouble and she goes, \u2018that’s math.\u2019 I said, \u2018well, no, it\u2019s actually genetics.\u2019”<\/p>\n

A week after the meeting, Adair was called in, given a questionnaire about why she had worn the shirt and was instructed not to wear clothing with controversial messaging going forward.<\/p>\n

The reprimand has made Adair fearful for her job and worried that she might receive heightened scrutiny down the road. But beyond her individual case, onlookers like Ryan Walters, the CEO of the Teachers Freedom Alliance (TFA), an organization advocating for alternatives to teacher unions, believe her situation is emblematic of larger power struggles in schools over ideology.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s not an isolated incident,” Walters said.<\/p>\n

“These are the types of teachers that when you talk to parents around the country, they go, \u2018I want my kids in a teacher’s class like that.\u2019 And yet you see the way that they’re treated by the districts.”<\/p>\n

Adair\u2019s case began when she selected one of her many “word” shirts to the professional development event \u2014 a routine training for teachers during the back-to-school season.<\/p>\n

She noted that her shirts aren\u2019t out of the ordinary for her. In fact, she threw on a “Math facts” t-shirt to meet a member of President Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet \u2014 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.<\/p>\n

She noted that the school district has a policy against apparel that is political or “disruptive to the educational environment.”<\/p>\n

But Adair said she didn\u2019t see her shirt as overtly political or disruptive \u2014 especially as there were no students present at the training event.<\/p>\n

“I mean I just grab a shirt I feel like wearing that day,” Adair said.<\/p>\n

“I just wear these shirts because they\u2019re facts. I just feel like someone has to be stating the truth,” she added.<\/p>\n

Asked why she thinks she might face future repercussions for the XX \u2260 XY shirt, Adair said she\u2019s been expecting this for some time.<\/p>\n

Long before the write-up, she helped strip the teacher union\u2019s grip<\/a> on her district.<\/p>\n

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In 2021, she helped topple two members of her school board who were backed by the union. Without them, the board allowed the district\u2019s contract with the teachers union to lapse by not voting to renew it.<\/p>\n

“It basically dictated how the administration could run the school district,” Adair said of the contract.<\/p>\n

“So, if the superintendent wanted to pay teachers extra money for having better scores or outcomes, he had to ask the union first. The union basically controlled the school district rather than the elected board.”<\/p>\n

Since helping flip the seats and speaking out against the union\u2019s influence, Adair said she has felt like there was a target on her back \u2014 sometimes literally.<\/p>\n

“One time a local plumber wrote me a veiled, threatening email to my district email right after I went against the union during a school speech on a Wednesday night,” Adair said. “And I got to school, and district security had to have me file a police report.”<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t mess around with the union. So, am I surprised? No. Yes, I’m afraid. I know this is the beginning of them coming after me,” she added.<\/p>\n

Adair noted that she doesn\u2019t have evidence that the teachers unions are behind the anonymous tip that sparked the review.<\/p>\n

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Even so, Walters, the CEO of the Teachers Freedom Alliance, said it is emblematic of some of the pressure he\u2019s seen firsthand in other cases across the country applied to teachers who question their authority<\/a>. He believes cases like Adair\u2019s are a key reason he says schools have become proxies for political control.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s like, well, you tally up these types of incidents across the country over two decades and guess what you\u2019ve got? You\u2019ve got a lack of other viewpoints in the staff and the employees,” Walters said.<\/p>\n

“And so that\u2019s where we\u2019ve seen this ideology being pushed in schools<\/a>, even in red states where people go, \u2018how did this happen?\u2019 Well, take this incident, multiply it by a thousand and apply it on a daily basis.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/teacher-battled-union-fears-targeted-shirt-complaint-afraid <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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