CV NEWS FEED // A Catholic high school snowboarding coach who lost his job after stating that men and women are biologically different has favorably settled his lawsuit against the Vermont Agency of Education.
Coach David Bloch was fired from Woodstock Union High School in Vermont in early 2023 the day after he had a conversation with two students on his snowboarding team about biological males competing in women’s sports, according to court documents. Bloch said at the time that biological differences typically give male athletes advantages over female athletes.
The school district claimed that he violated the school district’s Prevention of Hazing, Harassment, and Bullying Policy and the Vermont Principals’ Association policy. Bloch sued in July 2023.
The nonprofit Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom reported in a news release that the case was settled in March. The school district agreed to pay Bloch $75,000, which is nearly 17 times his annual salary.
Legal Counsel Mathew Hoffmann said in the release that Americans should not have to be afraid to express their beliefs.
“For more than a decade, Coach Bloch led the Woodstock Union snowboarding program to enormous success in terms of both athletic accomplishment and personal growth of the snowboarders,” Hoffmann remarked. “But the school district fired him because he simply expressed his views that males and females are biologically different and questioned the appropriateness of a teenage male competing against teenage females in an athletic competition.”
