Three staff members in the Amherst, Massachusetts public school system have been placed on leave pending the results of an investigation after a school newspaper used anonymous sources to accuse the counselors in so-called "conversion therapy" and not using the chosen pronouns of trans-identified students, media outlets have reported.
Attorneys for Hector Santos, Delinda Dykes and Tania Cabrera says the student-run newspaper for Amherst Regional Middle School used anonymous sources that were later cited by other news outlets and that the articles written put the Christian counselors' safety at risk by granting the sources anonymity.
The allegations held that Santos had performed "conversion therapy" before school hours in Amherst schools; that Dykes prayed against a so-called LGBT "demon" and "handed out chocolate crucifixes" and that all three failed to refer to students by using their self-declared pronouns, attorney Ryan McLane said.
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