Watch: Video of Trans Student Dragging Girl by Hair, Beating Her Then Walking Away Goes Viral Again - Here's What You Need to Know

A resurfaced video from 2023 is gaining renewed national attention after another violent school tragedy involving a transgender-identifying male in Canada reignited debate over school safety, discipline policies, and gender ideology.

The footage, originally recorded at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin, Oregon, shows a transgender-identifying biological male student assaulting a female student — slamming her to the ground and striking her repeatedly. The clip has now surpassed 400,000 views on X after being reposted by conservative outlet Townhall.com.

“A trans biological male student assaulted a female student by SLAMMING her body onto the floor and hitting her multiple times,” the caption stated. “Yet HE wasn’t EXPELLED… Parents are NOT outraged enough.”

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The video’s resurgence follows a separate and far more deadly incident last Tuesday at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, where a former male student who identified as female killed eight people and injured 27 before taking his own life.

In the Oregon case, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that some initially “speculated that it was planned because students seemed poised with their phones before the attack occurred,” but it was “later learned the incident was filmed at the end of the day when students were leaving and allowed to use their cell phones.”

Video from the altercation shows the attacker telling the female student, “Talk s*** again, b****,” after throwing her to the floor. The girl can be heard saying she did nothing and pleading for help because she could not breathe.

Rather than focusing primarily on the violence itself — a biological male assaulting a female student — establishment media coverage emphasized that conservatives had highlighted the attacker’s transgender identity and questioned the district’s disciplinary philosophy.

“In conservative news coverage, the attacking student was reported to be transgender and the incident was a result of the district’s restorative justice approach to discipline,” Oregon Public Broadcasting wrote.

The outlet then explained the district’s approach: “Where punitive justice focuses more on the consequences of actions, restorative justice prioritizes mending relationships and repairing harm experienced by the victims.”

District Response and “Restorative Justice”

Tigard-Tualatin School District Superintendent Sue Rieke-Smith defended the district’s policies at the time.

“We are an inclusive district, and we recognize all based on gender identity, sexuality, language, religion, creed, [and] culture,” Rieke-Smith said in 2023.

“That being said, the board is also very clear that when a student breaks a rule or breaks the law — and assault breaks the law — the student suffers the consequences, regardless of how they may identify or not.

“I want to be clear about that because I know there are members of the community that believe that because we have taken a very direct stance in terms of being inclusive, that somehow that gives others a pass where their children may not receive a pass,” she added. “And that’s not true.”

However, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that Rieke-Smith “would not speak much to the specific incident, citing protections under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA and other privacy restrictions” and only “confirmed the attacking student in the video has been arrested and is being dealt with by law enforcement.”

Notably absent from contemporaneous reporting was any clear confirmation that the student had been expelled, despite facing fourth-degree assault and harassment charges in juvenile court.

Parents Raise Alarms

The mother of the victim told local outlet Tualatin Life that she had learned troubling information after the assault.

Prior to her daughter being targeted, she “was aware this student had attacked girls before at the school and was not prosecuted or expelled.”

“The more I started talking with the moms in the community, the more I learned this male student had been an issue, and the school hadn’t done anything about it. It seems, from my standpoint, that they really let him go unchecked and unchallenged. He was allowed to pick anyone as his victim, and unfortunately, my daughter happened to be his victim,” she said.

Meanwhile, Oregon Public Broadcasting also interviewed a former teacher who claimed she left the school due to “what she described as staff’s resistance to equity work and its lack of support for LGBTQ+ students and students of color.” She dismissed conservative concerns over gender ideology and restorative justice as misplaced.

“As someone who worked in equity there,” she said, “I can safely say that that’s not at all what caused this or what caused any of the fights that are happening.”

Gender Identity and Accountability

Superintendent Rieke-Smith later addressed backlash following a non-credible threat directed at the school, insisting that the student’s gender identity was irrelevant to the assault.

“[Gender] had nothing to do with the choice that student made relative to the assault. That student made an incredibly awful choice, and will have consequences… commensurate with that assault,” she told KATU-TV.

“However, this other piece, which is ‘because this student has a particular gender identity, therefore…’ there is no connection. And that is the hate we are dealing with now.”

Yet for many parents and critics of progressive school policies, the core issue remains straightforward: Were administrators too focused on inclusivity optics and restorative justice frameworks to ensure consistent accountability — especially when female students were allegedly at risk?

As debates over school safety, gender ideology, and discipline intensify across North America, cases like the Hazelbrook assault are being revisited as cautionary tales. For concerned parents, the question is not about identity — it is about whether biological reality, student safety, and equal enforcement of the rules are being subordinated to political priorities.