Court: Principal Was Right to Ban Fourth-Grader's Pro-Trans Essay The principal had said that it's "not age-appropriate to discuss transgenders, lesbians and drag queens outside of the home.” March 03 2021 4:32 PM EST An elementary school principal in South Carolina was correct when she decided to keep a student's supportive essay about transgender people out of a school publication, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. As part of an assignment to write a 100-word essay on “society,” a 10-year-old fourth-grader wrote about being nice to trans people. “I don’t know if you know this but peoples view on Tran’s genders is an issue,” the essay read. “People think that men should not drees like a women, and saying mean things. They think that they are choosing the wrong thing in life. In the world people can choose who they want.”