U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth replied to a CBN News story late Thursday night, revealing that a transgender teacher who identifies as a wolf has been fired. It comes after a group of military families had expressed deep concern about the teacher at their children's school.
Hegseth declared on X, "The 'Wolf' was fired 2 weeks ago."
That information had apparently not been disclosed to Liberty Counsel, which had been calling on the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) to remove the teacher from the classroom. Liberty pointed to multiple disturbing examples that have confused and terrified kindergarten and pre-K children at Mildred B. Poole Elementary School.
Military parents of the Mildrid E. Poole elementary school students said that the teacher, a biological male, would dress in women’s clothing and would wear a dog collar with “fetish tags” paired with an animal tail, CNB reported.
The teacher went by many names which included "Roxxanne Wildheart," "Kiera Blackheart," "Lilith Deathhowl," "Captain Roxxie," "Artemis Deathhowl" and "savagebeastqueen." The teacher would require his students to call him by his wolf character names.
The parents told Liberty Counsel, who reported the teacher in a letter to the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), that the teacher would engage their children in his “sexual fetishes” by having them howl like wolves and telling them he turns into a “wolf” at night.
His students allegedly grew terrified of him.
"Mommy, I'm scared he's going to come eat me," one parent said their daughter told them, in reference to the teacher saying he turns into a wolf at night.
The teacher also told his students that he is “actually a woman” who “likes boys.”
"Mommy, Ms. Roxxie says he was born in a male's body, but he's actually a woman, but he likes boys!” another student told their parents.
Parents first reported the unsettling behavior in early 2025, but school administrators said there was nothing they could do about it since there was a proper dress code in place and that the teacher’s transgender status was protected.
But when teachers’ reported the teacher again in January 2026, they enlisted the help of Liberty Counsel, who argued the teacher’s conduct is in violation of President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order which deemed that only two genders — based on one’s biology — garner legal protections. Liberty Counsel also argued the teacher’s conduct is in violation of Pentagon’s recent rulings on military readiness since it causes distractions for parents.
"This male's behavior and DoDEA's failure to intervene constitutes sexual harassment in violation of Title IX," the letter states.
