WASHINGTON (TNND) — Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that a transgender teacher, who “identified” as a wolf, was fired from his position as a pre-K and Kindergarten substitute teacher and teacher’s aide at an elementary school located on Fort Bragg military base.

“The ‘Wolf’ was fired 2 weeks ago,” Hegseth wrote on X.

His post included a link to an article written by Christian Broadcasting Group, which detailed the bizarre and unsettling behaviors of the substitute teacher toward the students.

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.

The National News Desk reached out to the Department of Defense Education Activity for comment.