A Dallas Independent School District administrator has been exposed for coaching parents on how they can allow boys to play in girls’ sports by circumventing current state laws.
Mahoganie Gaston works as the support services LGBTQ youth coordinator at Dallas ISD. According to her LinkedIn, she has been working in the district for over 10 years.
A journalist from Accuracy in Media posed as a parent for an undercover video in which she asked Gaston how her transgender “daughter,” who was born as a male, could play in the girls’ sports leagues without discrimination.
Gaston began by stating that Texas passed a law that students can only participate in sports leagues that align with the sex listed on their birth certificates.
The Texas Department of State Health Services implemented a policy change last year and no longer accepts court orders to change an individual’s sex marker on his or her birth certificate.
The undercover journalist asked Gaston if her female-identifying son would be permitted to play in the sports leagues if she were to get an “updated” birth certificate in a state like New Jersey.
Gaston’s response was that Texas has not made a distinction between providing either an original or updated birth certificate. “Always refining, you know? They find the loopholes in everything,” she said.
Gaston assured the journalist that the school would take the side of the transgender student and support him—even in the event that a smaller, female student got injured on the field.
“I tell people all the time, I will go to jail for saving their child’s life,” she continued. “I guess no conservative kids come out gay.”
The administrator said she has no fear of incarceration because “How would that look on the news?” She then posed a hypothetical news headline, stating: “‘LGBTQ advocate arrested for protecting a child.’ Do you think I’d have any trouble getting bailed out?”
Neither Dallas ISD nor Gaston have yet responded to a request for comment.
