Two parent leaders embroiled in separate controversies over transgender student athletes and pro-Palestinian protests have been removed from their posts on Community Education Councils, Schools Chancellor David Banks announced on Friday.
Officials with the city Department of Education confirmed Saturday that Maud Maron, who has been accused of targeting transgender student athletes over her push to review the DOE’s gender guidelines, was removed from her post on Manhattan’s CEC 2. Tajh Sutton, president of Brooklyn’s CEC 14, who’s refused to hold in-person meetings citing threats over her pro-Palestinian advocacy, was also removed.
Maron said she didn't know the author was a student and insisted that her removal was an infringement of her free speech. She added, “All of those things have been unwelcome when I’ve said them at various points over the few years, but what seems to outrage many people in this administration the most is the fact that I know the difference between men and women."