Amherst school officials are heading to court in an effort to block the reinstatement of a middle school guidance counselor who was fired after she allegedly misgendered and deadnamed students in a scandal that made national headlines .

The Amherst-Pelham Regional School District filed a complaint Wednesday to vacate a recent arbitration decision reinstating Delinda Dykes, one of several Amherst Regional Middle School employees at the center of a 2023 student newspaper exposé . The article in The Graphic alleged Dykes and another guidance counselor routinely referred to transgender students by the wrong names and pronouns, failed to support students experiencing gender-based bullying, and invoked anti-LGBTQ+ prayer at school.

Dykes disputed the allegations in the article and appe

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