‘Unwanted and unwelcome’: Anti-LGBTQ+ policies common at Wisconsin voucher schools
Phoebe Petrovic
Wisconsin Watch
Updated
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Nat Werth surveyed the “gender identity and theory” section of the handbook for his alma mater, Sheboygan Lutheran High School, with shock and sadness.
In 2019, administrators at Sheboygan Lutheran High School canceled the valedictorian address of Nat Werth, who came out as gay and critiqued homophobic Biblical teachings as outdated or misinterpreted in a draft of his speech.
A slide from clinical psychologist Beverly Yahnke’s anti-transgender presentation at Sheboygan Lutheran High School on April 19, 2023, riffs on the acronym LGBT — which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — as “letting go of Biblical truth.”
Professor Suzanne Eckes teaches education law, policy and practice at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She thinks it’s “common sense” that schools receiving taxpayer money “shouldn’t be able to discriminate against certain historically marginalized students.”
At an April 19, 2023 talk at Sheboygan Lutheran High School, Christian clinical psychologist Beverly Yahnke described being transgender as a “delusion,” displaying an image of the transgender body-modification artist Tiamat Legion Medusa, whom she misgendered, to make her point. “We don’t treat delusions with scalpels. We treat delusions with psychiatric care,” Yahnke said. Transition-related care, which only sometimes includes surgeries, is endorsed by every major medical association.
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A slide from clinical psychologist Beverly Yahnke’s anti-transgender presentation at Sheboygan Lutheran High School on April 19, 2023, riffs on the acronym LGBT — which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — as “letting go of Biblical truth.”
At an April 19, 2023 talk at Sheboygan Lutheran High School, Christian clinical psychologist Beverly Yahnke described being transgender as a “delusion,” displaying an image of the transgender body-modification artist Tiamat Legion Medusa, whom she misgendered, to make her point. “We don’t treat delusions with scalpels. We treat delusions with psychiatric care,” Yahnke said. Transition-related care, which only sometimes includes surgeries, is endorsed by every major medical association.
In 2019, administrators at Sheboygan Lutheran High School canceled the valedictorian address of Nat Werth, who came out as gay and critiqued homophobic Biblical teachings as outdated or misinterpreted in a draft of his speech.
Professor Suzanne Eckes teaches education law, policy and practice at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She thinks it’s “common sense” that schools receiving taxpayer money “shouldn’t be able to discriminate against certain historically marginalized students.”
