It's hard to have sympathy for anyone in academia.
To be a teacher today you have to buy into the PC garbage or you don't get a job. This guy is a "social studies" teacher which means he knows the way today's educational PC world works, and he's probably been walking around on egg shells trying to appease the academic feminists.
If the guy has any common sense he'll get a job as a tradesman and make more money than he could as a teacher, not to mention having less headaches.
I think that's the question still unanswered, though the consensus seems to be he doesn't.
I remember when "social studies" was just a fancy name for History class.