Dwayne Bensing says he faced retaliation for reporting the department’s fast-track treatment of a case affecting transgender students.
with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The complaint challenged a Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete on the team that aligns with their gender identity, saying it gives an unfair physical advantage to athletes who were born male but now identify as female.
“It was just more than abnormal; it was against everything we do,” Bensing told HuffPost of the process outlined in the emails. “Your duties require that you regularly handle sensitive, deliberative information that may also contain personally identifiable information,” wrote Randolph E. Wills, deputy assistant secretary of education. “As a result of your unauthorized release of this information, I have lost trust in your judgment and ability to perform your assigned duties.”
Bensing was told he would have the opportunity to respond before a “deciding official” made a final call on his employment within 30 days. Bensing, now an attorney at the ACLU of Delaware, submitted his resignation three days later.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded guidelines about transgender students' use of school bathrooms in 2017.
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