Western Standard - Alberta football coach sacked for his views on trans ideology

00:00:00.000 Now, post-2020, all those kids who have mental health issues and don't fit in with society

00:00:05.480 are being recruited to be trans because trans is given as the answer to all their problems. 0.75

00:00:10.900 It's the carrot that's being held out there as, hey, you're depressed, you're anxious, 0.84

00:00:16.040 you don't fit in with society, you're trans. Come join our community. Come join our cult. 1.00

00:00:21.960 Come be with us. We will love you. Love bombing, kindness. It's a cult. And it's recruiting the

00:00:28.600 most vulnerable people in society. And then on top of that, it's even worse. It doesn't work.

00:00:33.800 Their lives don't get better. The depression doesn't go away. They don't fit in any more than

00:00:38.620 they did before. So they're promised that trans is going to be the answer to all their problems. 0.99

00:00:42.360 Then trans isn't the answer to their problems. And they get even more depressed and more lonely. 0.95

00:00:47.220 In these people who are depressed and on medications, you create this world where they

00:00:51.480 literally view people, Christians and Catholics, as their mortal enemy. And then stuff like that

00:00:56.420 happened today at a Catholic school in Minneapolis is happening more and more often. And it's not

00:01:02.620 because of the instruments used. It's because of this trans ideology that has infected our society 1.00

00:01:09.880 and has taken these kids, recruited them and breeding hate to people who they view it to be their oppressors.

00:01:26.420 I'm Derek Phil DeBrent, publisher of the Western Standard. Today, we've got a fascinating story,

00:01:36.560 exclusive story coming from Sylvan Lake, Alberta, where a volunteer high school football coach has been

00:01:46.800 dismissed from his position as the defensive coordinator for what appears to be a TikTok video

00:01:55.680 that he posted over the weekend, which discussed, coming out of Minneapolis,

00:02:05.920 the trans shooter who was a trans person, obviously very mentally, psychologically disturbed, 0.74

00:02:15.580 and the trend of a significant number of these mass shooters, particularly in schools and churches,

00:02:22.160 coming with some connection to trans ideology, speaking about how, you know, perhaps there is some

00:02:33.680 kind of pattern here with mental health problems that should be addressed. And that, in turn,

00:02:39.920 has led directly to his dismissal as the volunteer defensive coordinator coach for a high school

00:02:46.900 football team, the Lakers, in Sylvan Lake, Alberta. We've got the man himself, Tiege Johannesson,

00:02:55.460 or Taylor Johannesson, everyone calls him Tiege, coming to us from your home in Sylvan Lake. Thank you

00:03:01.720 for joining us, Tiege. Absolutely, my pleasure. Thank you for having me, Derek.

00:03:05.760 So, we're going to, you know, for folks, we're showing kind of some snippets from your TikTok video.

00:03:12.400 It's, it's not crazy long, but it's a little long for us to play the full thing back to back here,

00:03:16.600 where we don't want to take anything out of context, but we want to give a fair representation

00:03:20.300 of what it was you said. Yeah. In short, you know, if you want to summarize, what was the main

00:03:26.840 message you were conveying in that video you posted on TikTok? Yeah, so I've been, I've worked for

00:03:32.560 children, with children for 15 years as a coach, and worked in group homes with kids with special

00:03:37.480 needs and disabilities. And I saw the devastating effect that psychological drugs had on kids,

00:03:43.960 turning them into zombies. And so I got out of the group home world, because I just couldn't be a part 1.00

00:03:47.660 of that. And then this trans ideology started taking over and attracting these vulnerable kids 0.85

00:03:53.240 who have mental health issues, and who are told that trans is the answer to all their mental health 0.91

00:03:58.800 issues. And so they're put on more drugs, they're put on cross-sex hormones, which have terrible side 0.89

00:04:02.360 effects. And so I, you know, I started making TikToks. And they really blew up. And people

00:04:08.480 really appreciated what I was saying, and kept telling me that they were, you know, too scared

00:04:12.800 to stand up against the woke mob. I'm not scared. I, my entire personality, and my reason for being on

00:04:19.560 this earth, the reason God put me here was to stand up for the vulnerable, to stand up regardless of

00:04:24.800 consequences, for those that need to be stood up for. And that's what that's what I did. And I'm not

00:04:30.760 hateful. I don't hate trans kids or LGB kids, I actually hurt for them, because adults have 1.00

00:04:38.100 forced an ideology on to them with false promises about how this is going to make their lives better.

00:04:43.840 And so I'm not fighting against any child, I'm fighting for the children, because I see the

00:04:48.440 injustice and the harm that it is causing. So, you know, I watched the video, I can see how it might

00:04:55.140 be a little spicy to, you know, someone in the public education system, which tends to be fairly

00:05:03.200 ideologically captured. But I didn't see anything hateful by any, any reasonable explanation in your

00:05:13.080 video. You know, you're, you didn't say all trans people are going to go shoot up schools, but you

00:05:21.300 did point to, you know, a significant growing body of evidence that, you know, trans people are quite

00:05:28.040 disproportionately, um, uh, have been involved in these things. And that doesn't mean everyone from

00:05:32.860 a group is, but it, you know, yeah, but it was saying, you know, there's obviously some mental

00:05:37.460 health issues here and, and the people are afraid, uh, maybe I'm woken up the fact that it's 2025,

00:05:44.600 we can actually say things out loud again, at least to some extent. Um, but you know, that there's

00:05:49.880 mental health issues here, kids are being abused, and this is leading to some very tragic outcomes.

00:05:55.340 So you, uh, you got a call, uh, from the principal of the Sylvan Lake High School. Uh, the name is, um,

00:06:04.880 uh, Alex Lambert, right? Correct. Yeah. Alex Lambert. Yeah. Is the, is the, uh, principal of the school.

00:06:11.480 So you've been coaching there, uh, for a decade now. You 10 years. Yeah. Yeah. So you grew up

00:06:17.340 nearby in nearby Red Deer. Yep. For those not from Alberta, Red Deer, uh, Sylvan Lake is a small

00:06:22.840 community, not too far from Red Deer, just, uh, just west of it. Um, uh, you and your wife both

00:06:28.400 moved there. Your wife is a teacher at this school. At the school. Yeah. Yeah. And from what I

00:06:33.280 understand, she has a very, uh, hateful record, uh, beating up on trans and, uh, gay kids at the 0.97

00:06:38.460 school, right? That's correct. She ran the Gay Straight Alliance for a number of years. Yeah. Totally, 0.98

00:06:43.360 totally hateful. I've actually been in that room with the Gay Straight Alliance kids and, and supported 0.99

00:06:47.600 them. And, um, and again, I have to make this very clear. This is not against this. I'm fighting for

00:06:53.140 the kids against an adult ideology. That's recruiting vulnerable, vulnerable kids with false promises

00:06:58.040 that this will save their lives. Um, I think the public is starting to realize this more and more.

00:07:03.960 And, you know, you did say that my TikTok was spicy. I'll be honest, Derek. I don't, I don't know how

00:07:09.560 to not be a little spicy about something that I think might be the greatest medical harm that we've

00:07:13.700 ever seen. I don't know how to say that, that calmly. I don't know how to say that nicely. I'm,

00:07:17.920 I'm hurt and I'm, I'm destroyed at what I'm seeing. Um, I'm sorry, I'm getting a little emotional, but

00:07:23.640 what kids are being put through and I, I can't sit by and be nice about it, you know? Um, but no,

00:07:31.040 I don't hate any kid. And I've never, I've never treated any kid, regardless of any variable to their

00:07:36.620 personalities in any, uh, any way, but love and kindness. And that is backed up by every single

00:07:42.600 parent that has sent mass emails to the school board to Alex Lambert, the principal backing my

00:07:49.520 character up because they have direct knowledge of how I am with those kids. All my kids today are

00:07:54.440 devastated. I have kids, Derek, that I coached 15 years ago that wrote scathing emails to the

00:08:01.240 superintendent, um, in Chinook's edge backing me and my character. I have never once been hateful

00:08:07.960 towards any kid that I've coached. My reputation is incredibly high and everybody knows my character

00:08:13.400 who actually knows me though. The, the, the small minority of people that are coming out to get me

00:08:17.760 have never spent a single second with me in their lives, have never seen me coached, have never seen

00:08:23.280 me interact with my players. I made a Tik TOK video on my personal time away from my volunteer position,

00:08:28.700 which I've not paid for, which I've put thousands of hours in over 10 years to help mold young men

00:08:33.140 and young women. And it's heartbreaking to me, um, that there's a small minority that seems to be

00:08:39.340 able to, uh, uh, remove a coach like me after all these years and all the good that I've done.

00:08:44.220 So I, we, we've obtained, uh, right now, uh, nearly a dozen, uh, emails from students, uh, or,

00:08:53.120 or players, uh, past players that you've, uh, coached over the years and, and parents of players,

00:08:58.680 uh, who are, who are currently there. Um, so I, I, I've, I've seen a lot of this, um, now, uh,

00:09:06.180 you know, you have been through public schools. There's a lot of politics on the clock in the

00:09:11.020 classroom, teachers pushing this kind of thing. Uh, well, yeah, not what you're saying. I'd say

00:09:15.900 maybe the, the other side, the opposite, they're pushing the opposite on students in the classroom,

00:09:20.920 uh, on the taxpayer's time, on the student's time, on the parent's time. Um,

00:09:26.460 but you generally don't see it the other side. Uh, so, you know, you, you, you, you've got views

00:09:31.260 that I, I think are, uh, congruent with the broad mainstream of Alberta and even Canadian society,

00:09:38.200 uh, but certainly go against the grain of, uh, the ideology dominant in public schools right now.

00:09:45.760 Did you ever, uh, you expressed yourself in tech talk video. Um, but to your recollection,

00:09:50.920 did you ever, uh, you know, discuss these issues or, or your views on the field or, or in the locker

00:09:59.380 room, uh, while you've got your coach's hat on? Never. And that is unequivocal. And that has been

00:10:06.000 a main theme in the, about 40 emails from parents that have gone to the principal and the superintendent

00:10:11.940 supporting me and the children who say and confirm, I have never once ever brought any political

00:10:18.640 beliefs that I have or culture beliefs that I have to the football field, because that is not

00:10:23.060 appropriate. Even it, even though I believe that they're right, I don't believe that any adult

00:10:27.480 should be telling a child what they should or shouldn't believe. When I show up to coach those

00:10:31.480 kids, I'm there to coach them, to mentor them and to help them succeed, not just on the football field,

00:10:35.940 but in life as men, as, as, as husbands in the future, as fathers in the future, I don't bring any of

00:10:42.780 that to the field. And that is fully confirmed and backed up by the multitude of emails that have

00:10:47.820 been sent. It is, I don't believe, and I, and, and teachers do believe this is why you see rainbow

00:10:52.680 flags and safe space stickers. By the way, the safe space stickers that are all over these classrooms,

00:10:58.020 I find it kind of strange that you need a safe space sticker to convince people that you're a safe

00:11:02.200 space. My wife never put a safe space sticker on her door because she knew that her actions said 0.99

00:11:07.300 that she was a safe space and she didn't need to advertise it. Safe space stickers to me seem very much

00:11:11.800 similar to a white van handing out candy. So I'm not really sure how that is a thing that's going on

00:11:16.540 in schools, but it definitely is. I don't believe anybody should be talking about their ideology, including

00:11:22.400 myself, as a coach to young people. That's not our jobs. So I've listened to the recording of

00:11:31.280 the principal, Alex Lambert, firing you from this volunteer position. So you don't work for the school,

00:11:38.200 you're a volunteer, but your, your wife does, uh, serve as a teacher there. Yeah. Um, you said she's

00:11:43.200 out to get you. She's been trying to get you for, for some time now. Um, and she accused you of

00:11:49.260 breaking, I think it was the safe schools after. Yeah. The safety and education act. Yeah. That was

00:11:53.700 the reason. Yeah. She accused you of breaking the safety and education act and you asked her to

00:11:58.000 specifically cite, um, what it is you did. Yeah. Uh, that it's in violation of the act. And she,

00:12:05.800 uh, she refused to say, you asked her repeatedly over and over. Yeah. Um, and she wouldn't say,

00:12:12.200 I think the only, all she would say is I'm not going to get into details. Uh, so it's pretty,

00:12:18.000 she hasn't cited what the specific, uh, side, uh, what you've specifically violated. I, I certainly

00:12:24.320 don't think this would, I I've looked at the act. I don't think, I don't see how this would violate

00:12:29.260 it under any reasonable interpretation of it at this time. Um, what recourse, uh, are, of any,

00:12:36.060 are you, are you looking at? Cause you know, wrongful dismissal doesn't, I don't, I'm not a labor

00:12:40.620 lawyer, but I don't think it would apply here. Cause you, you were not paid staff. You're not a

00:12:43.420 teacher. You know, a lot of the coaches will be also teachers. You're, you're just doing this on

00:12:47.880 your own time. Um, you know, so they'll, you know, wrongful dismissal doesn't quite apply here.

00:12:53.960 Obviously the union's not going to defend you. Um, although they have defended pedos. You've 0.90

00:13:00.040 defended the right pedos to keep teaching. They have, but I don't think they're, I doubt the

00:13:04.620 Alberta teachers association considers you their kind of clientele. Um, but, uh, you know, what recourse

00:13:11.440 if any, uh, other than talking to us. And I think that, you know, this kind of thing, shedding a light

00:13:16.540 on it, uh, perhaps could, could have some positive outcome for you, but what recourse are you

00:13:21.600 looking at after this? Yeah. You know, well, the first thing is, um, when I got the call

00:13:27.640 from Alex, I reached out, um, to my players and, and, and to the parents and kind of told

00:13:33.100 them the situation and just, you know, ask it, you know, if you believe this is wrong,

00:13:38.260 I'd really appreciate your support. And my goodness was I overwhelmed with the, the, the parents

00:13:44.520 were, were incredibly angry, not just because of losing me as a coach, but because, and,

00:13:49.640 and, and this was a sentiment, a sentiment in all the emails was, um, what message is

00:13:54.540 Chinook's edge school division? Chinook's edge school division is the board in which HJ Cody

00:13:58.700 high school falls under. What message are we sending to kids where we tell people that they

00:14:04.380 aren't allowed to believe what they believe that Christian beliefs are not welcomed in our

00:14:09.020 school? You know, they talk about being inclusive all the time, but they, as soon as you

00:14:12.520 mentioned, you're a Christian, as soon as you have a Christian belief, which I am, I'm

00:14:15.380 a man of God, I'm a man of faith. Um, as soon as you mentioned that you're fired from a volunteer

00:14:20.160 position that you've put 10 years of your time in and you've done nothing but good for

00:14:23.660 those kids. What message are we sending those kids? What message are we sending to the future

00:14:27.600 of our society? It's disgusting and it's despicable. So that has been really good. My next step is 0.67

00:14:32.840 to meet with the superintendent of schools today. He's been bombarded with emails of support

00:14:37.080 and he's definitely been, uh, received some few, a few emails because I've been CC'd in

00:14:41.820 them from woke activists who say that the best decision they ever made was getting rid

00:14:47.360 of a Nazi like me because I'm, I'm dangerous for students. Now, let me be very clear.

00:14:52.380 Every one of those emails is coming from people who have no idea who I am, who have never spent

00:14:56.300 a minute of their time with me, who have never seen me coach. These are people that got wind

00:14:59.740 of my TikTok video. And of course they never watched the whole thing. It's a six minute long

00:15:03.100 video. They, as soon as they realized that it was quote unquote anti-trans, which is,

00:15:07.420 um, a load of nonsense. Um, they just, they completely just lose their mind and then they 0.74

00:15:12.560 go and try to wreck my life. So, um, I'm meeting with the superintendent today. I'm not sure that's

00:15:17.960 going to go super well for me. Oftentimes these superintendents will just back their principal,

00:15:21.800 which would be a shame because, you know, the people actually hurting the kids are Alex Lambert,

00:15:27.840 the principal of the school, um, the woke activists complaining about me. And if the superintendent

00:15:31.960 doesn't reinstate me as a coach him, because the kids that are hurt are my football players,

00:15:36.360 they're devastated first day of school today. And they're stressed. They weren't sleeping all

00:15:41.240 weekend. They've been out fighting for me. They're making t-shirts for me. They're, they're

00:15:45.400 devastated. The hurt from the kids is being brought by these people who got rid of me and any future

00:15:50.520 kid that I may have impacted, um, in the future. So right now it's just talking to as many media outlets

00:15:55.640 as I possibly can. I actually have been, uh, this is kind of crazy, but, um, I had a, uh,

00:16:01.960 a person who's highly connected to the UCP government here in Alberta. And she has said,

00:16:06.700 my story is going all the way up to the premier's office. Um, Devin Dreeshan, my MLA here in Sylvan

00:16:12.840 Lake already knows about this story and is supposed to be contacting me today. Um, this is going high

00:16:17.960 because this is, by the way, my TikTok video, Derek is fully in line with the current government

00:16:23.440 of Alberta's policies in regards to trans people and trans ideology. So being in line with the government

00:16:30.280 apparently is wrong, uh, for the school board. Uh, so, uh, you said there's, uh, the complaints

00:16:38.140 have been in from, uh, people who don't, you know, you just, but activists, uh, are to the best of your

00:16:45.780 knowledge have, has there been a single complaint from any of your players or students? Zero, absolutely

00:16:51.880 zero. And you know what? I know that, uh, because a, uh, the pit that we have a, we had a group chat,

00:16:57.960 which I've been kicked off of now, but, um, there was a group chat and every single parent on there

00:17:03.920 wrote a letter for me. Every single one of them, all my players have my, uh, have a full support of

00:17:09.140 me. Everybody is upset. Um, past players, like I said, players I coached 15 years ago are coming

00:17:15.180 forward and writing scathing email, taking time out of like, like a lot of time, like these emails are

00:17:20.780 long, they're detailed, they're heartfelt. Um, speaking of my character and who I am and, and you know what,

00:17:26.200 no matter what comes of this, this will be one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me

00:17:32.180 because I know that I am, I'm meant to fight this battle. I'm strong enough to fight this battle. It

00:17:38.660 sucks and it hurts. It breaks my heart to be honest with you. Um, I love coaching. I love, uh, mentoring 0.99

00:17:44.860 young people, but to see the outpouring of support has been, um, incredible and I'll never forget.

00:17:51.980 I'll never be able to thank them enough for that. So, so you, you said, uh, you've never brought

00:17:57.680 your politics onto the field or into the locker room. Um, but, uh, you know, have you, uh, your,

00:18:03.180 your wife's a teacher, uh, at, uh, at the school, sorry, the name of the school again is H.J. Cody,

00:18:10.140 H.J. Cody. Yeah. And Sylvan like, uh, have you seen instances of teachers or has your wife seen

00:18:18.480 instances of, uh, teachers or staff or outside people bringing, uh, pro trans ideology politics

00:18:26.140 into the classroom or into the school? Yes. Yes. 100%. I mean, that's been allowed.

00:18:30.560 That's been allowed. There is a giant rainbow flag in their gathering area. It's massive. Um,

00:18:35.020 there are safe space stickers with rainbow flags on every single teacher's door. They were forced

00:18:39.640 to put them on there, uh, by the principal. My wife refused because she, she said, I don't need a

00:18:44.560 sticker to convince people that I'm safe. I, that, that is mind boggling to me. So the, the,

00:18:49.920 the rainbow, um, flags are everywhere. The safe space stickers are everywhere. All they do is talk

00:18:54.940 about diversity and inclusion. And by the way, I am fully for including everybody. This is not about

00:19:00.780 excluding people. In fact, I'm the one being excluded here. I'm the one being hated on here. I'm the one

00:19:05.900 being banished from the school here. So the hypocrisy runs deep. Um, but yes, uh, the, the, the,

00:19:12.160 the teachers, there's, um, there's multiple they, them teachers at that school and that's all,

00:19:16.960 that's their entire personality. So yeah, no, they, they are able, and I've, I've heard myself

00:19:21.800 from, and this is what's crazy. I've heard myself from kids that they're sick and tired of,

00:19:25.880 of these they, them forcing their beliefs on people. And even though I want so badly to agree

00:19:31.360 with them because I, because I understand that it's not my job to force my beliefs onto children.

00:19:36.100 I just say, Hey, I can't talk about that. And that's my response to that.

00:19:40.000 Um, what, so the principal, Alex Lambert here, you say that she's been out to try and get you out

00:19:46.080 for some time, uh, beginning with when you were, you had, uh, then Twitter posts before it became

00:19:52.180 liberated and X, uh, you had, um, uh, that she was out to get you when you were speaking out against,

00:19:59.800 uh, vaccine mandates, lockdowns, things like that. Um, now I, I, I mean, uh, I've listened to the call.

00:20:07.500 It seems, you know, she won't, she won't cite what part of the, uh, the act, uh, you have

00:20:12.240 apparently violated. It is very clear that this is in relation to the TikTok video. Um, so she

00:20:18.200 thinks she, that, that, that was the cause she needed to be able to sack you. Uh, yeah. 1.00

00:20:23.180 Like the football pun there. Yeah, I did actually, that was good.

00:20:26.720 And we, are you, uh, are you Eskimos or, or, uh, Stampeders? You know what? You're from

00:20:33.380 central Alberta. You can go either way. I am, but my uncle actually played for the Saskatchewan

00:20:37.640 Roughriders. So I've always been a Roughriders fan. My uncle played for the Ottawa Roughriders.

00:20:42.360 So did my uncle. He got, he won a great cup with Saskatchewan in 1989. And the year after he got

00:20:47.080 traded to the Ottawa Roughriders in 1990 and played there till 1996. My uncle played in the

00:20:51.640 seventies, so they wouldn't have overlapped, but okay, we're going to have to connect offline and

00:20:54.840 talk football lore here. I've missed the Ottawa Roughriders, man. Greatest logo in the history of

00:20:59.600 sports. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, you know, it's hard to hate on Saskatchewan fans. I'm Calgary. I can

00:21:05.600 hate on what, you know, they call themselves the Elks now. I guess it's like a football pronoun

00:21:08.940 or something, but it's something like that. Yeah. They're, uh, yeah. Uh, but, uh, we, we always

00:21:15.700 love Saskatchewan people when they come out. There's, they're, they're, they're, they're so

00:21:18.760 silly. Yeah. That's my polite way of putting it. That's fair. I appreciate that. Yeah. All right. Um, 1.00

00:21:25.220 okay. So I want to get this back to, uh, to Lambert here. Um,

00:21:28.700 what do you think should happen with her? Uh, you know, she, she has seemingly brought ideology

00:21:35.340 onto the field here, um, with her actions. Uh, you say she's been out to get you for some time,

00:21:41.360 uh, going back to, uh, COVID when, you know, uh, people had certain views that were not popular with,

00:21:48.140 uh, government employees, like a school principal. Uh, what do you think should happen to her? Should 1.00

00:21:53.480 she be allowed to keep her job? You know what, Derek, this is a tough question for me to answer

00:22:00.020 because I try to consider myself to be a really good person and a God fearing person. And I really

00:22:06.800 don't wish harm on other people. And through this all, this has been a woman who has been after me

00:22:13.020 for four years and has tarnished my name to the, to everyone that she can listen to has ruined

00:22:21.020 relationships for my wife. Like there are teachers that my wife was friends with before that Alex has 1.00

00:22:26.020 ruined the relationship. They've started treating my wife poorly because of the things Alex has said

00:22:30.220 about me and the fact that my wife stands up for me and also agrees with my beliefs. One of the few 0.86

00:22:34.920 teachers that actually is, is sane and not captured by this ideology. So I have a lot of,

00:22:40.880 I have a lot of feelings about Alex Lambert and the way that she has come after me and tried to

00:22:47.000 ruin my life. But Alex, I don't know if you're going to watch this. I actually don't hope any harm

00:22:52.180 comes to you. I hope you get to keep your job because I know you have a family and you have a

00:22:56.160 husband and you have kids to take care of. And I'm not going to sink to your level and try to remove

00:23:01.640 and, and say that I want you removed and to ruin your life. Even though you've been after me for all

00:23:06.460 these years and you haven't given a damn about me, my wife, or my family, I have a new

00:23:10.700 daughter that she knows about. So I'm not going to say that she should lose her job because I'm not

00:23:15.920 an evil person, but she should have to, she should have to apologize to me. She should have to reinstate

00:23:21.640 me and she should have to publicly apologize for the, the slander and the, the pain that she has

00:23:28.200 caused me and the players at that school. But I will not sink to her level and wish harm upon her.

00:23:32.900 I'm not, I'm not like that. Well, you're, uh, you're a better Christian than me. I think I will

00:23:38.800 sink to that level. I, I, I, I feel like these, uh, people paid by the taxpayer, uh, pushing this

00:23:46.980 ideology onto kids is unforgivable. And that's, and that's, uh, that's worse than what she's, uh, 0.99

00:23:53.000 done to you here. We're trying to sack someone who just happens to disagree, but, uh, you know,

00:23:58.340 during school time with taxpayers resources, pushing this on kids. Um, yeah, I, I, I think

00:24:04.680 I will sink to that level. Yeah. And I, I don't disagree with you, but I'm trying to be.

00:24:09.800 You're, you're being, uh, more forgiving, better Christian than I can be here. So good on you.

00:24:17.000 Um, you know, uh, we're going to stay with this story. This is, uh, we're not going to let this be

00:24:21.860 a little flash in the pan here. Uh, we're going to be reaching out to your MLA, Devin Driesian.

00:24:26.200 We're going to be reaching out to the minister of education, uh, Demetrios Nikolaitis. We're

00:24:30.280 going to be reaching out to the premier, Danielle Smith. We're going to reach out to the principal,

00:24:34.920 Alex Lambert, uh, for what she has to say in the superintendent, uh, there's accountability

00:24:39.300 to take place here. Uh, and there's still more, uh, more facts to gather. Uh, you know, uh, there's

00:24:45.780 always another side of the story and I, and I want to hear that other side of the story. We,

00:24:48.860 we haven't got it yet and we're going to reach out for that. But, uh, you, you've got my assurance

00:24:54.060 here that, uh, at the standard, we're, we're going to stay on this story until we've got all

00:24:58.220 of the facts and, uh, and some kind of resolution because this, this kind of thing, um, I think

00:25:04.140 they're hoping would just kind of go away and it's, uh, it's our job to at least shine some

00:25:08.240 light on it, bring information to it, make sure it doesn't go away until there's a proper

00:25:11.180 resolution. Is there anything, um, that we didn't touch on today that, uh, you think needs

00:25:16.740 to get on a record? No, I think you did a great job, Derek. And I just want to say,

00:25:21.500 I appreciate you so much reaching out. Um, this is powerful. This is, um, I believe God

00:25:27.600 has a plan for me and I think this is a part of his plan and it's hard. I've been through

00:25:32.680 a lot of hard things in my life. Um, having my character constantly attacked by someone

00:25:37.660 like Alex, who is by the way, Alex has never, she's been the principal of the school for four

00:25:42.520 years now. She has never once come and watched me coach. She has never once come and seen me

00:25:47.560 interact with kids. She's never once. I have begged her in previous meetings I've had with

00:25:52.080 her to go talk to the parents, go talk to the kids. And all she says is I don't need to, I know

00:25:56.800 enough about you. So this is a woman that hasn't even tried to get to know me. Hasn't seen me in, 0.71

00:26:01.420 in, in my place of, of coaching. Hasn't even attempted to get to know me. She's decided that I'm

00:26:06.400 a terrible person because I have views that she doesn't agree with. And so, um, I'm so

00:26:12.440 thankful for you and, and, and, and Western standard and, and people like you who are

00:26:17.280 shining the light on this because it's not right and it's not fair. And I'm, I'm willing

00:26:21.000 to take some heat here, um, and, and take some pain here to hopefully have something good

00:26:26.720 come out of this. And I believe that's, that's what God has planned for me.

00:26:30.320 All right. Well, uh, Deej, thanks for joining us today. Uh, best of luck in, uh, the struggle

00:26:36.940 you're engaged with now. And I'm sure we're going to have, uh, we're going to need to follow

00:26:41.120 up, uh, for another chat in the not too distant future.

00:26:44.380 I would love that. Thank you so much, Derek.

00:26:46.380 All right. Thank you.

Western Standard - September 02, 2025

Alberta football coach sacked for his views on trans ideology

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