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# Amy Coney Barrett revealed to be a trustee of anti-LGBTQ+ schools
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/amy-coney-barrett-revealed-to-be-a-trustee-of-anti-lgbtq-schools/
- Published: 2020-10-27T11:15:22.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-27T10:13:33.000Z
- Description: Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who has replaced the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a US Supreme Court justice, has previously been linked to anti-LGBTQ+ private schools where queer teachers or children of LGBTQ+ couples were not welcome.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Election Special, News, Politics, Amy Coney Barrett, Amy Coney Barrett LGBTQ, LGBTQ, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Elections 2020, US SUpreme Court

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who the US Senate has confirmed to the supreme court to replace the late **Ruth Bader Ginsburg** as a **US Supreme Court** justice, has previously been linked to anti-LGBTQ+ private schools where queer teachers or children of LGBTQ+ couples were not welcome. According to the [**Chicago Tribune**](https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-amy-coney-barrett-trinity-schools-anti-gay-policies-20201021-rpdycfpoo5fflmksyndrqolavi-story.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk), Barrett served on the **Trinity Schools Inc** board – which covered three private schools in **Indiana**, **Minnesota** and **Virginia** – for over two years. All schools were affiliated with Barrett’s Christian faith group, **People of Praise**, which has been known to expel LGBTQ+ members.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/trinity-school-1.jpg)

In 2017, an openly gay student named Tom Henry reported being told by the school’s headteacher ‘gay and trans students were not welcome’ at the Minnesota school causing him to quit the student ambassadors’ board. Barrett has also been accused of being anti-LGBTQ+ on multiple occasions such as when she [suggested](https://www.them.us/story/trump-likely-supreme-court-pick-amy-coney-barrett?ref=scenemag.co.uk) trans people are not entitled to protections from gender based discrimination.

She was recently made to [apologise](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/amy-coney-barrett-apologises-for-remarks-about-lgbtq-people/) for her use of the term ‘sexual preference’ as opposed to sexual orientation, saying: *“I didn’t mean and would never mean to use a term that would cause any offense in the LGBTQ+ community.”* However, LGBTQ+ activists and Democrats are still concerned about her appointment as Supreme Court justice, particularly after she was endorsed by US senator [**Mitt Romney**](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/anti-lgbtq-amy-coney-barrett-endorsed-by-mitt-romney/) who many hoped would vote against Barrett**.**

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/mitt-romney-1.jpg)

Mitt Romney has endorsed Barrett