Transgender teacher claims discrimination at NYC’s Speyer Legacy School

She was hired to diversify a “progressive” private school, but a transgender teacher claims she faced months of rampant discrimination — culminating in a witchhunt by parents who claimed she was endangering kids in school bathrooms.

Educator Alaina Daniels says in a lawsuit her time at Speyer Legacy School, which was co-founded by Harry Belafonte’s daughter-in-law and costs $54,000 a year, was a “living nightmare” of discrimination.

Bosses repeatedly claimed they were committed to diversity but then Daniels was allegedly barred from joining LGBTQ groups, repeatedly referred to as the wrong gender; fielded numerous insults from colleagues and was once told, “genitals and gender are inseparable,” she said in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing.

The harassment took a frightening turn at a holiday party when a male coworker allegedly choked her on the dance floor — and bosses later blamed her for sparking the incident by dancing “provocatively,” Daniels alleges in the legal filing.

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