Vermont snowboarding coach files lawsuit after getting fired for sharing views on trans athletes

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The former head coach of a Vermont high school snowboarding team has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he was fired earlier this year after he expressed his religious beliefs and views on transgender athletes. 

Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont Monday on behalf of David Bloch, who founded the snowboarding team at Woodstock Union High School more than a decade ago, after he was terminated for discussing his views on trans athletes. 

A snowboard at the top of a mountain during the downhill event at the Lake Louise Audi FIS Ski World Cup on December 2, 2022, at the Lake Louise Ski Resort in Lake Louise, AB.  (Brett Holmes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The lawsuit alleges that at a competition on February 8, Bloch overheard a conversation between two of his athletes discussing a male snowboarder who identified as a female and was competing against other biological females. 

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"Coach Bloch joined the conversation to offer that people express themselves differently and that there can be masculine women and feminine men," the complaint read. "But he affirmed that as a matter of biology, males and females have different DNA, which causes males to develop differently from females and have different physical characteristics. Coach Bloch discussed that biological differences generally give males competitive advantages in athletic events."

The conversation lasted three minutes, and the competition went off without incident, the lawsuit stated. Both teams even