RuPaul’s Drag Race UK stars and the great and good of LGBTQ+ activism have signed an open letter endorsing a secondary school teacher to be the first trans person elected as deputy general secretary of Europe’s largest teaching union.

Kacey DeGroot , a drama teacher from Coventry who served five years as the LGBTQ+ seat holder for the National Education Union (NEU) executive, is seeking to be elected to the second-in-command role at the union which represents around 500,000 members working across the education sector.

DeGroot, who wants to fight against anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in schools, is up against Sarah Kilpatrick, an art teacher, for the position.

DeGroot describes herself as a “candidate for all educators” and she is keen to build equality and representation across the union and spe

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