On Friday, a federal court didn’t seem prepared to mandate that the Lake Oswego School District reinstate former track coach John Parks.
However, in court, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon stated that he thought Parks’ letter objecting to a transgender girl competing in a state track meet qualified as protected speech.
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