Leading Off (2/10/21)
A 10-year-old boy is among latest COVID victims, Mark Cuban cancels the National Anthem, and Dallas police make a slew of murder arrests.
By Peter Simek
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February 10, 2021
7:49 am
Weather Poses a Challenge for Vaccination Effort. The wait times at Dallas County’s Fair Park vaccination hub stretched on for hours yesterday as health officials struggled with a drop in temperatures, temporary vaccine shortages, technical glitches, issues with appointment bookings, and missing generators needed to store the vaccines. The 66 new deaths in Dallas and Tarrant Counties yesterday included a pregnant woman in her 20s; a woman in her 30s, who contracted the virus months ago and was recently re-infected; and a boy “younger than 10.” Union officials want to see more vaccines for food industry workers and better hazard pay for grocery store clerks.
Dressing for success
For LGBTQ students and parents, dress codes are only part of the concern
Aubree Calvin | Contributing Writer
Just two-and-half hours west of Fort Worth is Clyde Consolidated Independent School District, where, in December, gay male student Trevor Wilkinson was suspended for wearing nail polish.
If you drive five hours south of Dallas, you’ll come to Louise Independent School District where, in October, trans student Sanae Martinez was banned from school for dressing according to her gender identity rather than the sex she was assigned at birth.
Both students were accused of violating their school’s gendered dress codes, policies that the American Civil Liberties Union and other Texas interest groups call unconstitutional. Students across the DFW Metroplex report similar stories to Wilkinson and Martinez, but because they handled it privately through meetings with teachers and principals instead of taking their stories to social media, these stories have