ABOVE: Heather Andring. Screenshot via WTAE-TV.
PENNSYLVANIA | A 14-year-old trans female was dragged to the floor and then beaten by a male student so badly she suffered a concussion, her mother said.
The incident, which took place on Oct. 27 inside Armstrong Junior-Senior High School, was captured on several students’ mobile phones with the video shared on social media.
Heather Andring told multiple local media outlets that her 14-year-old daughter, Willow Andring, had been harassed and bullied previously by the male student assailant at the school located an hour Northeast of Pittsburgh.
“He pulled me from behind and started beating me up,” Andring told Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA 2. “Before this, he had been calling me names saying, ‘It’s not a she, it’s not a he, it’s an it.’”
“What Willow told me that day was that they were used to the name-calling and that they could bear it, but they never thought that this would happen,” Heather Andring said.
In another interview with Pittsburgh ABC News affiliate, WTAE-TV 4, Heather Andring said that she was going to ask the school board during a meeting this past Monday for change in the district.
“I want us as a community to take ownership of this,” Andring told WTAE. “We have a great community and a great school here, but you can’t have all of this happen and not step back and pause and say that we don’t have issues that we need to work on.”
“Appreciate all of your comments on behalf of the board. We are listening and we are certainly willing to work with the community and the administration to do whatever it takes to be proactive and not reactive to this problem and promote change,” the board said during Monday’s meeting KDKA reported.
The Armstrong School District has not responded to multiple requests for comment and although the Manor Township Police Department was called to investigate, there is no further information on whether charges will be filed against the assailant.
