Trans activist fired from Dallas ISD after getting caught on camera saying she would skirt state law

A Texas school administrator who was caught on camera explaining how to circumvent state law against transgender athletes in girls’ sports has reportedly lost her job. 

According to school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, Mahoganie Gaston was the LGBTQ youth coordinator and homeless youth coordinator for Dallas ISD for more than a decade, but was terminated after the video, filmed by Accuracy in Media, surfaced in January.  

State Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded documents from the school district surrounding its policies after the video surfaced. He announced Monday the filing of a legal petition to depose key officials “to ensure that the District is not violating Texas law by permitting biological males to participate in girls’ sports.

“School districts must follow the law, keep our children safe, and end these insane ‘gender theory’ policies that ignore reality and encourage illegal actions. ISD officials who have participated in this madness will be held accountable,” Paxton, a Republican, said in a release. “The systematic effort by Dallas ISD officials to circumvent Texas law will be exposed and stopped.” 

DeAngelis posted screenshots of a GoFundMe for Gaston that described her as a victim of an “anti-trans hate group” and called her “a fearless champion” for trans and non-binary youth. 

But the Accuracy in Media reporter, who posed as the parent of a boy who wanted to play girls’ sports, encountered someone who said she was willing to break the law and even “go to jail” to help trans students. 

“They find the loopholes in everything,” the administrator said. 

Gaston assured the reporter that she would support a transgender athlete even if they posed a safety risk to others or injured another student during a game. 

“I tell people all the time, I will go to jail for saving their child’s life,” Gaston continued. “How would that look on the news, ‘LGBTQ advocate arrested for protecting a child’? Think I’m going to get in any trouble getting bailed out?” 

The fundraiser page for Gaston says she was terminated “despite no wrongdoing on her part,” even though she told the undercover journalist to use an “updated” birth certificate to get around a 2021 state law requiring students to play sports based on their birth sex. 

Gaston is apparently one of several school officials willing to skirt the law to continue their woke policies. 

The watchdog media group has also found educators in Texas and Nebraska who “rebrand” critical race theory so they can continue teaching the prohibited subject. 

And Dallas ISD got in hot water when teachers partnered with a transgender clinic without district approval.