Lee and Donna Bruns of Watertown don’t like to see anything go to waste. Donna is a Master Gardener and the couple use much of their lawn to grow vegetables,
The teacher gave a letter to several high school students, referring to them as their deadnames and saying their gender assigned at birth was "the biological truth."
Students say that Calvin Hillesland, a German teacher at Watertown High School, wrote in the letter that calling a trans student by his chosen name was "wrong" and "a lie."
Photographs of a purported letter sent to transgender pupils by South Dakota teacher Calvin Hillesland spread virally across social media in April 2022.