PERSONAL STORIES OF RELIGIOUS - STUDENT: EVIE MACDONALD DISCRIMINATION - TEACHER: RACHEL COLVIN

When Evie said she wanted to go with the TEACHER: RACHEL COLVIN female students, her teacher refused and told her that she was a boy, and physically dragged her Mrs Rachel Colvin, a towards the group of male students. [...] committed Christian and married mother of In 2015, without her parents’ knowledge, Evie three, had a 10-year was made to attend seven sessions of chaplaincy unblemished teaching counselling by the school, designed to prevent record at Ballarat her affirming her gender as a girl. [...] Sam was herself between a man and a woman’ was essential to Mrs a graduate of the school. [...] Colvin’s role as an English teacher, and that it When Sam came to was reasonable and proportionate for the school terms with her sexuality, to enforce that belief, especially in circumstances she assumed that the school would not accept her being open about WE NEED YOUR VOICE. [...] But on the first day of her contract, Sam was called Despite his attempts to keep his sexuality into the Vice Principal’s office and told to private, there were still a few close calls.