A state administrative law judge said a Southwest Florida high-school teacher should be disciplined, but not fired, for making negative comments about transgender people.

The Lee County School Board last year moved to terminate Angel Villanueva, a Junior ROTC instructor at East Lee County High School. But Administrative Law Judge Linzie Bogan, in a 12-page recommended order Monday, said “just cause” existed for discipline, but not firing.

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