Florida school board candidate says doctors who treat trans kids 'should be hanging' from a tree
Alisabeth Lancaster, a school board candidate in Florida, said that doctors who treat transgender youth "should be hanging from the nearest tree."
A school board candidate near Pensacola, Florida, said Monday that doctors who treat transgender youth "should be hanging from the nearest tree."
Alisabeth Janai Lancaster, who is running for a seat on the Santa Rosa County School Board, spoke Monday night at an event called "Closing Arguments," a political forum held by a local group named the Gulf Coast Patriots, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
“These doctors that are going along with mutilating these children and prescribing hormone blockers to these kids, in my opinion, they should be hanging from the nearest tree,” she said, according to a now-viral video shared on social media by Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law’s Cyberlaw Clinic and a transgender rights advocate.
The crowd applauded.
A video of Lancaster's speech was first shared by the Gulf Coast Patriots on Facebook but was later removed following media coverage, the News Journal reported.
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