A Tennessee mother has recited some of the “awful” things that students have said to her gay daughter in a poignant speech at a Wilson County School board meeting.
During the board meeting on Monday 10 July, Lindsey Patrick-Wright shared a list of insults that have been shouted at her sixth-grader, Pippy, while the child was attending West Wilson Middle School in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Some of the slurs she recited were: “My parents say I can’t talk to you because you’re gay,” “You don’t deserve to live,” “You’re going to hell,” and “My parents say you’re a pervert and if I beat you up, they wouldn’t care.”
