Female teacher fired, forced to apologize after saying ‘good afternoon, girls’ to students: report
Some students reportedly held a lunch protest and even made placards emblazoned with the slogan 'Trans lives matter'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A teacher in the U.K. was pressured by students to apologize after she misgendered them, according to the Daily Mail.
The students — 11-year-olds at an expensive private school in the U.K. managed by the prestigious Girls’ Day School Trust — were reportedly displeased after the teacher addressed them with a "good afternoon, girls," at the beginning of a lesson.
Some of the students told the teacher that "not everyone here identifies as female," with others later writing their names and pronouns on the board for the teacher’s edification.
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The students — 11-year-olds at an expensive private school in the U.K. managed by the prestigious Girls’ Day School Trust — were reportedly displeased after the teacher addressed them with a "good afternoon, girls," at the beginning of a lesson. (iStock)
The teacher, who spoke on a condition of anonymity to the Daily Mail, said that the experience was "humiliating and embarrassing."
Some students held a lunch protest and even made placards emblazoned with the slogan "Trans lives matter," according to the teacher.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Before the end of the week I was in some sort of disciplinary process and the head of year was telling me I had to apologize to the girls," she told the Daily Mail.
Some students held a lunch protest and even made placards emblazoned with the slogan "Trans lives matter," according to the teacher. (CBC News/Screenshot)
After apologizing to her students, the teacher said that her application to remain at the school following the end of her contract period was rejected.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Parents in schools across the U.S. have blown the whistle on school districts, teachers and administrators for attempting to encourage their children to transition genders.
Aurora Regino, a mother from California, said she was shocked after her daughter's school district used a "parental secrecy policy" to hide her 11-year-old daughter's gender transition process.
"During one of the meetings, my daughter told the counselor she wanted to tell me about her new identity," Regino said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The teacher's employment contract with the school was rejected after the transgender controversy. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
"They ignored her request and did nothing to support her in letting me know what was going on at school," she told board members at a meeting in April.
"This policy that they have in place, to keep these situations a secret from the family, is incredibly damaging," the mother added.
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The Girls’ Day School Trust did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Taylor Penley contributed to this report.