Christian teacher fired over trans policy celebrates Trump order targeting gender ideology in schools

A Christian erstwhile teacher who was fired aft refusing to comply with her schoolhouse district's transgender policies celebrated President Donald Trump's enforcement bid Wednesday targeting sex ideology successful K-12 schools, calling the infinitesimal "surreal."

"I'm connected unreality nine," Jessica Tapia told Fox News Digital.

"The precise happening I was fired implicit —the tide has wholly turned. Now, it's the teacher who participates successful socially transitioning a pupil that is going to beryllium successful trouble. Not the different mode around, similar it's been for the past respective years," she added.

Trump's enforcement order, entitled "Ending Radical Indoctrination successful K-12 Schooling," calls to destruct national backing oregon enactment "for amerciable and discriminatory attraction and indoctrination successful K-12 schools, including based connected sex ideology and discriminatory equity ideology."

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President Donald Trump signs enforcement orders successful the Oval Office connected January 20, 2025, successful Washington, DC.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The order, which besides targets captious contention mentation successful schools, directs authorities and section attorneys wide to enactment with the U.S. Attorney General to enforce the instrumentality and instrumentality enactment against teachers who interruption the instrumentality by "sexually exploiting minors," "unlawfully practicing medicine by offering diagnoses and attraction without the requisite license; oregon different unlawfully facilitating the societal modulation of a insignificant student," it says.

Tapia, a erstwhile tenured physical acquisition teacher successful California's Jurupa Unified School District, was fired successful January 2023 aft she refused to comply with the district's sex policy, which, she says, directed teachers to fell children's sex modulation from their parents and usage students' preferred pronouns.

Tapia explained that the territory was initially made alert of her absorption to sex ideology by posts connected her societal media relationship discussing her religion and blimpish beliefs. After being pulled retired of her schoolroom and into respective meetings, the territory said it could not assistance her spiritual accomodation petition and terminated her.

She filed a suit against her erstwhile leader successful May 2023, alleging she was deprived of her escaped workout of religion and state of speech. Tapia reached a $360,000 colony with the territory a twelvemonth later.

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SIMI VALLEY, CA - SEPTEMBER 26: Jessica Tapia of "Our Watch," speaks astatine the California Policy Center and PERK (Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids) event, "A Line successful the Sand  A Rally for Parental Rights" astatine Rancho Madera Communty Park successful Simi Valley, CA connected Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.  (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Jurupa Unified School District did not admit immoderate responsibility oregon wrongdoing, saying of the colony past year, "The colony is not a triumph for Ms. Tapia but is successful compromise of a disputed claim."  

"The colony surely does not authorities oregon beryllium immoderate amerciable enactment oregon favoritism by the District. The District continues to contradict immoderate amerciable enactment oregon favoritism against Ms. Tapia," a connection from the territory read.

Tapia, who present homeschools her young children, has go an advocator for different teachers, parents and students who spot their motivation convictions astatine likelihood with these sorts of policies successful schools. 

"I've heard from thousands of radical each crossed the federation of however grateful they are for the basal I took," she told Fox News Digital.

Jessica Tapia claims Jurupa Unified School District ordered her to prevarication to parents regarding their children's sex transitions.  (Fox News)

She continues to stock her communicative and counsel different teachers going done akin ordeals, encouraging them that it's worthy it to "stand steadfast successful the truth," nary substance the cost.

Finding retired astir Trump's enforcement bid connected Wednesday was a surreal infinitesimal for the erstwhile teacher, who mislaid her occupation precisely 2 years ago.

"Just to spot Trump travel successful and instantly marque these changes served arsenic specified affirmation for me, like, ‘You truly did bash the close thing,'" Tapia said. "It's hard to find the words for however I felt learning astir that. Almost surreal, honestly, due to the fact that again, it's similar present the tide has turned truthful completely."

Tapia said she was thrilled that much teachers and parents would beryllium protected nether the law.

"Teachers person been walking distant successful droves, leaving acquisition due to the fact that of what it's become. And truthful anticipation is decidedly rising," she continued.

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Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, reacts successful beforehand of the House Select Subcommittee connected the Coronavirus Pandemic connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, U.S. April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

Trump's bid was met with disapproval from the American Federation of Teachers, 1 of the largest teachers' labour national successful the nation.

AFT President Randi Weingarten accused Trump of unfairly tarnishing teachers and making their jobs much hard with the enforcement order.

"Today is simply a bittersweet time due to the fact that the Trump medication is doing precisely what it accuses others of: creating part and fearfulness successful classrooms crossed America," Weingarten wrote successful a property release.