Posted on 06/07/2023 6:05:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
A student barred from his high school graduation ceremony after stating there are only two genders said in a Sunday interview on "Fox & Friends" that a firefighting job offer has now been rescinded.
"Girls are girls, and guys are guys. There is no in-between," 18-year-old Travis Lohr recalled saying, as KHQ reported. Lohr made the off-script comment at a high school assembly where seniors at Idaho's Kellogg High School offer a piece of advice to younger students.
More than 100 parents, students, and community members gathered Friday to protest the school's decision to ban him from participating in the graduation ceremony over the remark, according to the Idaho Tribune.
I didn’t direct it at any groups or anything like that; it was just something I chose to say in the moment," Lohr also told the outlet, adding that his remark was met with an "uproar of cheers."
Lohr says he departed from his preapproved remarks at the Thursday assembly, instead speaking from the heart, according to the Idaho Freedom Foundation.
Bus driver Dakota Mailloux, who joined the protest on his own time, told the outlet he was fired for his participation.
Lohr was not asked to apologize for the remark nor would he have provided one if asked, he told Fox News Channel host Rachel Campos-Duffy Sunday morning on "Fox & Friends."
"What I said I believe in, and I stand by it."
"I wasn't able to walk at graduation. My offer to work for the forest service was rescinded," Lohr also said.
Lohr told Campos-Duffy he was slated to start work Sunday, but when he went in to complete the final paperwork, his boss informed him he was rescinding the offer. He described the job as "fighting wildland forest fires."
"That's part of life, as I am learning, and I am going to continue to grow from here. I'm not going to dwell on it."
"I don't believe I would have been punished at all, personally, if I had said 'black lives matter,'" Lohr told Campos-Duffy. "For this to happen over what I said, it's just controversial ... If people speak up like I did ... it seems frowned upon. You can be punished for it, obviously, like I'm being punished," Lohr said.
"It's reassuring to know that I'm not alone and realize what I did wasn't wrong," Lohr said of the outpouring of support from his peers and people in the community.
"Unacceptable!" Idaho state representative Heather Scott (R) tweeted Friday, describing Lohr's original statement at the assembly as a "scientific fact."
Despite an earlier announcement from the district saying graduation would be delayed over "safety concerns," Kellogg High School held its ceremony Saturday morning.
Kellogg School District Superintendent Lance Pearson asked parents and students to keep the time of the ceremony "under wraps," KHQ reported.
Watch video from the Idaho Tribune below of Kellogg High School students and community members protesting a decision to ban Travis Lohr from walking in the school's graduation ceremony.
Seems homos run that Community and School System.
Freedom of speech only applies if the woke left agrees with the speech.
Doxx all of the ones involved. Enough of this crap. Make all their lives more miserable than they are trying to make ours.
Heather Scott gives a statement. What she should be doing is going directly to the forest service office, TV cameras following, and demanding to see the local head explain why Lohr’s job offer was rescinded, then when the explanation is insufficient (as it will be), camp out in front of the office and refuse to leave until the job is reoffered. When our representatives get those kinds of cajones regardless of which gender, things will begin to change.
Remember those Junior officer academy grads? Occasionally you would get a real arrogant horses arse assigned to your division. A wise chief advised me to quit butting heads with the estupido’s, give them the “yes sir” and do it the way you were taught in regs and pubs.
The estupido’s never knew and the CO would grind the nincompoop’s thru the wardroom mulcher.
Parents need to hand together and hold private graduation ceremonies and totally bypass government control.
He should follow Riley Gaines example and become a national spokesMAN for saying what everyone with a brain knows is true. Youts will pay more attention to other youts.
get a rope!
The forest service is another PC loser.
Folding up like a cheap suit.
They could have gotten an enthusiastic new hire for that hard work.
I’m glad many of the students and their families are showing support.
More people are now willing to speak up about all this posturing and pretending. Its gone too far.
Or they get fragged....................
If he was really bold, he’d put it in the pre approved speech. I wonder why he didn’t.
The worm.
She is turning.
What a dummy.
Everyone knows there are three.
How does this happen in a county (Shoshone) that voted Trump 70%, Biden 28% others 2%?
Wrong is now right and they’ll kill you if you ask questions
Biden 28% others 2%..............That 30% is in the Government offices.................
“Doxx all of the ones involved. Enough of this crap. Make all their lives more miserable than they are trying to make ours.”
Exactly. Name them and shame them.
And for those who participated in the ceremony: You failed the first major moral challenge of your young life
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