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A Colorado Springs elementary teacher says her district disciplined her over a shirt about chromosomes, worn on a workday when not one student sat in the building.

Stacy Adair teaches English language learners at Wilson Elementary in Colorado Springs School District 11. On Aug. 6, at a staff planning day held the week before classes resumed, she reached for one of the plain slogan shirts she wears constantly. This one carried the letters XX, a symbol meaning "does not equal," and the letters XY. No colleague objected. Seven days later, administrators summoned her.

"I got sat down and read like a reprimand and was asked questions like what was my intent," Adair told the Gazette. The instruction she took away was blunt. "I was told not to wear it again."

The College Fix reported that a peer had branded the garment "anti-trans," and that Adair heard nothing about the grievance "until a week later." She rejects the label.

"It's not anti anything," she told Fox News host Trace Gallagher in a televised interview. "Biological facts are facts, and teachers above everybody else should be focusing on facts and biology and things that are … true."

District spokeswoman Jessica Wise would not discuss a personnel file and pointed instead to Board Policy GBEBA, which she said "establishes professional expectations for employee attire, including clothing that does not disrupt the educational environment." Those expectations apply "consistently, without regard to viewpoint," Wise said, and a shirt carrying a pro LGBTQ slogan "would be evaluated under the same policy and standard as any other attire."

The policy text leans heavily on children. Beginning on page 48 of the district employee handbook, it anchors the entire standard in a claim that student achievement rises when staff look the part. On Aug. 6, no students were there to be influenced.

Adair told Fox News Digital the complaint arrived anonymously, and she suspects an older grudge. In 2021 she helped unseat two union backed board members, after which the board let the teachers union contract lapse. She concedes she cannot prove the union triggered this tip.

Ryan Walters, the former Oklahoma schools chief who now runs the Teacher Freedom Alliance, joined her on air. "It's not an isolated incident," he said, arguing that districts across the country punish staff who dissent. His organization, a rival to conventional teacher unions, named Adair its Teacher of the Year in September 2025.

Gallagher linked the case to State Farm Arena on Aug. 16, where security told a Georgia mother and daughter to cover shirts from the XX-XY Athletics line or leave the Indiana Fever game against the Atlanta Dream. The league later conceded the episode "should not have happened," and the Dream said WNBA security made the call, not team staff.

Asked whether her employer owed her anything, Adair said she "would like" an apology but expects the reverse.

"I'm dumbfounded that they're saying that I was disruptive, because ask anybody at that meeting and there was no disruption whatsoever," she said.

The College Fix writer, a retired teacher of more than 25 years, closed with a practical note. Staff routinely dress down at preseason sessions precisely because students have not arrived.

Schools exist to hand the next generation an accurate picture of the world, not to punish teachers who state what every biology textbook records. When a district treats chromosomal reality as a disciplinary matter, it has stopped educating and started indoctrinating. Purging cultural leftism from American classrooms is no culture war luxury. It is a necessary precondition for institutions that reward truth-telling and form the stable, pro-social citizens this republic requires.