Elementary school hit with disgusting graffiti after rightwing newsletter attacks trans student

The graffiti at the elementary school said “PERVS WORK HERE”
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An elementary school in Ventura County, California was vandalized early last Friday morning with graffiti reading “Pervs Work Here.” The message has been widely interpreted within Maple Elementary School’s community as a response to a teacher’s affirmation of a transgender student’s new name and pronouns.

According to CBS News Los Angeles, the teacher explained the student’s identity to her class back in January, reading them a children’s book about a transgender boy.

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“She just said that the student went by one name and the teacher said now we are going to refer to the student by this name, and she said we support all the kids in this classroom and that was it and it wasn’t a big deal,” recalls Lauren Najjarpour, whose daughter is in the class.

The teacher received support from the Conejo Valley Unified School Board. “This is a place of learning, and every student has a fundamental right to be safe in a place of learning and everyone, regardless of their age, has the right name and claim their identity,” member Lauren Gill told CBS News.

But recently, local newsletter The Conejo Guardian published an article titled…

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