Anti-LGBTQ demonstrators protest outside home of school board member in Central Florida

A group of anti-LGBTQ demonstrators in Brevard County, Fla., took their protest to the home of a school board member.

According to local reports, protesters showed up Thursday evening at the home of board member Jennifer Jenkins carrying signs that read “two genders & one crazy-evil school board,” “Brevard School Board approved dangerous anti-Christian policies” and “LGBTQ agenda is ungodly.”

At least one other sign also criticized mask mandates.

Jenkins, her husband and their kindergarten-age daughter were out of town during the commotion, but heard about it through neighbors and city officials.

“I don’t even know what I would do if I was home with my daughter right now,” Jenkins told Florida Today on Thursday.

“It’s the same people that were screaming in deputy sheriff’s faces. I understand freedom of speech and everything, but the fact that they’re doing this in a residential neighborhood is (expletive) disgusting to me.”

Last month, a heated clash between anti-transgender protesters and LGBTQ students and their allies during a school board meeting made national headlines.

Conservative groups such as the newly formed Moms for Liberty took issue with a document released by the district on March 1 and mobilized protesters to demonstrate at the meeting.

The document clarified the school board’s policy designed to “ensure the safety of every student,” including those who identify as LGBTQ.

That includes allowing trans students to use their preferred pronouns, access locker rooms and bathrooms “that are consistent with their gender identity or be provided appropriate accommodations,” and “participate in school activities that are consistent with their gender identity.”

Some of the protesters who showed up at Jenkins’ home this week appear to have been at the meeting, Florida Today reported. One of them, a megaphone-wielding man who gave his name as Thomas Jefferson, told the paper that group is “affiliated only with Jesus Christ.”

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich lost to Jenkins in the 2020 election.

But in a Facebook post Thursday, Descovich condemned the protest.

“It has just come to my attention that a group of protesters has formed outside the home of a Brevard school board member,” she wrote. “I wholly denounce this behavior and Moms for Liberty would never support such antics.”

Jenkins’ father-in-law said that the group plans to demonstrate outside her home every night, she told Florida Today.