Teen punished for saying she’s a lesbian on the school bus gets actual justice

Izzy Dieker
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A 14-year-old lesbian student in Kansas has succeeded in getting her school district to change its policies towards LGBTQ students after she refused to silently accept her bus driver’s homophobic discrimination. The bus driver and the school’s principal also lost their jobs after the student and her family filed a Title IX complaint among the many changes that came about because a lesbian teen stood up for herself.

Izzy Dieker was riding the bus home this past January 27 from North Lyon County Elementary School where she was in eighth grade. Other students were leaning out into the aisle and using profanity, but the bus driver, Kristi Gadino, didn’t seem to care much about the language until Dieker said that she’s a lesbian.

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That’s when Gadino pulled over and wrote up Dieker for “unacceptable language,” being rude, and not switching seats when told. When the teen talked to Principal Corey Wiltz, he told her that it was “inappropriate” to use the word “lesbian” near young students and she was suspended from riding the bus.

Her family filed a Title IX complaint and an investigation found that there was a video of everything that happened that the principal didn’t even review to find out that the bus driver wasn’t telling the truth. Moreover, he still believed it was “inappropriate” to use the word “lesbian” in front of other children.

In the video, other students on the bus…

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