Facts matter. The truth matters. When a person in a position of public trust, like a teacher, is threatened because they assert facts or truth, that's a sure sign of a system gone badly wrong. And yet, that's what has happened to an award-winning Colorado teacher, who is being threatened over her assertion of biological fact; on a t-shirt, no less.
Stacy Adair, an award-winning teacher from Colorado, is facing scrutiny after a complaint that accused her of spreading anti-transgender messaging by wearing an "XX ≠ XY" chromosome t-shirt to a professional development training event earlier this month.
"They get an anonymous complaint — nobody said anything that day," Adair, who was named teacher of the year at the 2025 Teacher Freedom Summit, said. "I would say people don't even know what it means, honestly."
"I told one of my friends that yesterday about getting in trouble and she goes, ‘that's math.’ I said, ‘well, no, it’s actually genetics.’"
She is, of course, absolutely correct: This is a matter of genetics. Genetically and physically, male is male and female is female, and never the twain shall meet, no matter how anyone in either category may claim to "self-identify" as a male, as a female, or as a ham and Swiss sandwich on rye. In this genetic assertion, Stacy Adair is absolutely supported by facts, and facts will not be denied. And note: This wasn't in a classroom. No students were present.
A week after the meeting, Adair was called in, given a questionnaire about why she had worn the shirt and was instructed not to wear clothing with controversial messaging going forward.
The reprimand has made Adair fearful for her job and worried that she might receive heightened scrutiny down the road. But beyond her individual case, onlookers like Ryan Walters, the CEO of the Teachers Freedom Alliance (TFA), an organization advocating for alternatives to teacher unions, believe her situation is emblematic of larger power struggles in schools over ideology.
There is nothing controversial about that shirt. It's a shirt any honest biology teacher may have worn. It's simply an assertion of genetic reality.
This wasn't Stacy Adair's first conflict with the education powers-that-be in Colorado; in 2021, she worked to help dump two school board members who were teachers' union bigwigs. And, yes, she received threats over that, including one that resulted in a police report, although there's no indication that any further action was taken, although the threatener was evidently identified as a "local plumber."
American educators should be focused on presenting facts. Not ideologies. Not feather-headed nitwittery. Facts. Facts matter. The truth matters. Instead, teachers are being punished if they dare to present an obvious fact that people have known for many thousands of years: Male is male, female is female, and this is a matter of biological fact. That's all. Instead, teachers are being threatened with career-ending consequences if they refuse to toe the progressive line. That's absolutely anathema to the notion of education.
Watch Stacy Adair's and Teacher Freedom Alliance CEO Ryan Walters's discussion with Fox News' Trace Gallagher on the topic:
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