Josh Tabor, who was elected as a write-in candidate for the North Berwick section of the Maine School Administrative District following his two-week campaign, had the following exchange with members of the school board:
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Tabor: So if I raise my daughters to, if the person is a female, appears to be a female, to use she pronouns, and that student says, “no, I want to be something else” will my child be suspended for that?
School board member: Oh, yeah. That would be harassment.
Tabor: When I heard that students are being suspended because they are using the wrong pronoun, I was aghast. I didn’t realize that. … One is biological facts, it’s actually XX chromosome, XY chromosomes. Those are facts. We can’t change those. It doesn’t matter what our opinion is. We can’t change those things. Those are immutable facts. And I’m wondering…my question is, are we suspending students for immutable facts? That’s what I’m asking.
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Tabor: I think that you are out of line by assuming that I am attacking anybody.
School board member: Then I don’t know what you mean.
Tabor: I’m asking a general question.
School board member: I think it’s been answered. I think if you accidentally do it, and somebody corrects you, fine, it’s not an issue.
Another board member: I mean, think about the other kids. So what is your goal here? That they’re allowed to be dead-named?
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Tabor: I don’t think it’s harmful to speak the truth.
