Page 5 - Max Hightower News Today

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

A transgender student has been reinstated as the male lead in his school’s production of Oklahoma! after his school’s board faced backlash.

A Texas school board has apologized and reversed a decision that ousted a transgender high school student from playing a part in the musical “Oklahoma!” The Sherman school board voted unanimously to reinstate the show and the cast after meeting with several citizens who criticized its decision to remove an actor from the leading role…

“We all learned some new lessons … about prejudice, transphobia, and discrimination,” a high school student said.

SHERMAN, Texas — A school district in the conservative town of Sherman, Texas, made national headlines last week when it put a stop to a high school production of the musical “Oklahoma!” after a transgender student was cast in a lead role. The district’s administrators decided, and communicated to parents, that the school would cast only students “born as females in female roles and students born as males in male roles.” Not only did several transgender ...

A Texas school board reversed a previous decision and has allowed once again a transgender student to sing in a lead role in the musical "Oklahoma!"

Sherman school district votes unanimously to reinstate Max Hightower, 17, to production of Oklahoma! and issue apology

A Texas school district reversed a decision to bar a transgender boy from playing a male role in a school production of Oklahoma! this week after a bitter backlash. The Sherman School Board initially paused the play after asserting that roles had to be played by students in accordance with their gender.

The superintendents arbitrary decision was unanimously overruled by the board.

The board's reversal came after a heated meeting, where more than 60 people spoke in support of Max Hightower, a transgender senior cast in the musical.