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   Fox News is promoting swastika-wielding gay teacher Ray Shelton as the   
   network’s latest anti-trans culture warrior.   
      
   The fifth-grade teacher from Glendale, California — where a riot broke out   
   last week over the school board’s determination to pass a Pride Month   
   resolution — was put on leave in April after he showed up to an earlier   
   board meeting to protest policies supportive of trans students, and   
   flashed an anti-trans meme.   
      
   Before the meeting started, Shelton waved a swastika composed of Progress   
   Pride flags at a Jewish teacher in attendance. She complained to school   
   district staff, and a Glendale police officer confiscated the Nazi-   
   inspired anti-trans emblem from Shelton.   
      
   Despite the hateful display, Shelton was allowed to share his views in   
   public comments.   
      
   “Two plus two equals four,” Shelton began, enlisting facts in a line of   
   reasoning that would soon enough be shrouded in fiction.   
      
   “The world is not flat. Boys have penises; girls have vaginas. Gender is   
   binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is   
   not hate. Gender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological   
   disorders. No caring professional or loving parent would ever support the   
   chemical poisoning or surgical mutilation of a child’s genitalia.”   
      
   Then Shelton personified “transgender ideology,” adding, it “is anti-gay,   
   it is anti-woman, and it is anti-human. It wants to take away women’s   
   sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements — it is misogyny writ large.”   
      
   “And I can also say this as a gay man, the gay people…”   
      
   With that, the microphone went silent and Shelton was told his time   
   expired.   
      
   According to Glendale parents group GUSD Parents for Public Schools,   
   Shelton made his double-barreled attack on trans people and Jews on Yom   
   Ha’Shoah, the day dedicated to honoring the Jewish victims of the   
   Holocaust.   
      
   Two days later, Shelton appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil — taped last   
   August — in which he confronted a panel of trans men and women and   
   methodically denied their existence, employing the same specious mix of   
   facts and fiction that he did at the school board meeting.   
      
   Monday on Fox, as footage of rioters battling in Glendale played behind   
   him, host Jesse Watters elevated Shelton to right-wing martyrdom for   
   taking one for the anti-trans team, despite the fact it was later revealed   
   that Shelton had already announced his retirement from the district this   
   school year before he was suspended pending an investigation.   
      
   Watters lauded the former fifth-grade teacher and his cowboy-hatted lawyer   
   appearing with him with his own distortion of the facts for “saying what   
   70% of the country believes and what 100% of science believes” about trans   
   people.   
      
   “Speaking scientific facts is hate speech,” Watters asked Shelton   
   rhetorically.   
      
   Yes, they all agreed.   
      
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