Victory: Victoria Cobb Speaks to TPUSA Club Despite Last Minute Lawsuit to Stop Her

Today, Victoria Cobb (President of The Family Foundation and its legal arm, Founding Freedoms Law Center) finally got the chance to address a packed-out crowd of Virginia’s largest high school chapter of Turning Point USA at Western Albemarle High School on the hot topic of “Two Genders: One Truth.” Over 200 showed up, with some students having to be turned away due to lack of space. This highly anticipated event finally went forward despite a last-second federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a “non-binary” student to try to stop her from speaking.

For background on this story, see “High School Bars FFLC President from Speaking at TPUSA Meeting; Legal Team Responds” and “Victory: Albemarle High School Backs Down.” And you may have seen Victoria’s video update of the developing story last night here.

While Victoria was all geared up to finally get to speak to this amazing group of conservative young people during their lunchtime meeting, after the event was cancelled the first time by the school principal (because apparently talking about the reality of two genders is somehow too “mature” and “disruptive”), the Founding Freedoms Law Center was notified yesterday about a federal lawsuit seeking emergency relief to keep Victoria from speaking today!

Once again, our lawyers sprang into action, seeking to intervene in the case and submitting a legal brief to the court before it held a special Zoom meeting with the parties at 4:30 PM yesterday to determine whether to grant this complaining party a “Temporary Restraining Order” to prevent Victoria from speaking today at noon.

Think about how powerful her message must be for the enemy to work so hard to keep young people from simply hearing it. Despite all the forces aligned against us, we are winning on this issue, in part because we are winning the hearts and minds of young people who are starving for the truth.

Late last night, a federal judge – a Biden appointee – issued a written opinion denying the request to cancel Victoria. The opinion relied heavily on the fact that the school board acted reasonably because they had received our Law Center’s demand letter, which raised serious constitutional and statutory challenges to preventing me from speaking. According to the opinion:

“Here, the School Board was exposed to both statutory and constitutional claims after Principal Jennifer Sublette announced her decision to move the original event from lunch to evening. The demand letter—sent from Michael B. Sylvester on behalf of the TPUSA club, sponsoring teacher, and Cobb—delineated these potential claims, which included First Amendment viewpoint discrimination and federal Equal Access Act violations. The letter asked the Board to correct the “unlawful act” “immediately.””

This is another great victory, but it proves once again that the truth must be continually fought for with all vigilance. We are honored to be on the front lines doing this work. Thank you for your continued prayers and support as we advance our message of truth to every Virginian who will listen, even – and especially – when others seek to silence us. We will not be silenced.