Queer student targeted in political ad speaks out

She helped him with his costume. Her classmates did, too. Stitch by stitch, the senior at Magic City Acceptance Academy helped her history teacher become a Mardi Gras queen.

The occasion was a drag show fundraiser to help the school’s history quiz bowl team attend a competition in Washington, D.C. The fundraiser was a student idea, the school’s principal said, and was successful. The quiz bowl team will head to D.C. next week.

“It was a fun thing,” the senior at MCAA said, although it’s hard for her to remember it that way now.

Because now, in the shadow of an Alabama election, she said that the fun event has been “weaponized” in a television advertisement by Tim James, a Republican candidate for governor. The advertisement, which incorrectly labels MCAA as “the first transgender public school in the South,” includes images of the fundraiser the senior had worked to make a success. The images showed staff and students, including the senior, their faces visible.

https://www.wate.com/news/student-mother-object-to-her-photo-appearing-in-alabama-political-ad/
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Tim James is using pictures of minor students in his ads without their permission? Um, I believe that's against the law...even Alabama law.