Republican Rep. Dale Strong called for Space Camp to remove a transgender employee after a viral social media post called the person a “freak.”

Three Republican Alabama officials are expressing concern that a transgender person is employed at Space Camp, an educational program for children held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.

One of the lawmakers is calling for the employee to be removed and for the center to “open a safety review to consider the potential harm and damages they have inadvertently caused children.”

The backlash began Saturday after Clay Yarbrough, a father who lives just outside of Huntsville in the small town of Owens Cross Roads, posted a screenshot of the LinkedIn profile and social media photos of a crew trainer at Space Camp on Facebook. Yarbrough said he had planned to send his daughter to Space Camp the following week, “but we have just found out that this freak is a team lead and a hall monitor in the girls dorms and at times could be allowed to be alone in the halls at night.”

  • lettruthout
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    643 months ago

    So they’ve solved every significant problem for their citizens and now are inventing fake ones?

    • gregorum
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      533 months ago

      They have no interest in solving any problems, only creating new ones.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      The only significant problem was that they didnt have the freedom to be openly hateful, now that right has been restored, America is great again and all is well.*

      *(For white males)