School kicks trans teen out of high school musical because he wasn’t born a boy

Sherman High School
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A Texas high school says that a transgender student will no longer be allowed to play the male lead in a student production of Oklahoma!

Max Hightower, a senior at Sherman High School in Sherman, Texas (about 65 miles north of Dallas), was cast as the male lead in the classic musical last month, according to KXII. “It was a beautiful day,” Max’s father, Phillip Hightower told the local CBS affiliate.

But days after Max landed the role, Phillip Hightower says that the school’s principal called to inform him that his son would not be allowed to play the role after all due to a new policy. Hightower says he was told that…

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