“Scott Smith is a dedicated parent who’s faced unwarranted charges in his pursuit to protect his daughter,” Youngkin said Sunday in a press release.
“Scott’s commitment to his child despite the immense obstacles is emblematic of the parental empowerment movement that started in Virginia.”.
According to Loudoun Now, Smith threatened to kick out the teeth of deputies who dragged him away from a Loudoun County School Board meeting over state-mandated protections for transgender students.
The case galvanized conservatives nationwide when reports spread that the cisgender male student wore a skirt during the first attack.
The fallout came last December for the Northern Virginia school district in the Smith case.
The board fired its superintendent after a special grand jury accused him of lying about the first sexual assault.
Administrators failed to sufficiently communicate the risk posed by the student to the new school, according to the report. »
