A high school teacher told her students that Nintendo characters have different sexual and gender identities, as she claimed that Mario is gay, while Princess Peach is a “massive lesbian.”
Remy Elliott, who is employed by the New York City Department of Education, made the comments in a presentation to students at a Gay Straight Alliance after-school club meeting.
In a video uploaded to her TikTok account, she re-shared the powerpoint claiming that Princess Daisy is “hella bisexual, polyamorous,” while Luigi is a “demisexual dude.”
Elliott, who has more than 81,000 followers and identifies as bisexual, has since deleted the videos and made her profile private.
Certified under the name of Jeremy William Elliott, she currently teaches DOE’s 9th grade class, though she previously taught younger classes, Fox news reports.
New York City Department of Education teacher Remy Elliott, pictured, gave a presentation to her students explaining the different genders and sexual identities of Nintendo characters
A screengrab from her TikTok of the presentation in which she called Princess Daisy ‘hella bisexual’ while Luigi was a ‘demisexual dude’
“So the GSA at the school where I teach decided to have a PowerPoint night, and I decided to combine two of my favorite interests into one,” she said in the original clips.
“This is questionable assigning genders and sexualities to classic Nintendo characters.
“Yoshi is a trans man. He’s just living his best life with Berto, and his top surgery turned out great.
‘Not a single scar. We love that for him.
“Of course that means Berto is a great trans girl.”
Top surgery is the removal of breast tissue when a woman transitions into a man.
She continues to call Princess Peach a “massive cis lesbian” who is attracted to Princess Daisy.
Meanwhile, Daisy has been described as “hella bisexual, polyamorous… and she’ll ask you where you are.”
Elliott continues, “Mario… came out so long ago most people forgot and he probably marched to Stonewall and he says some transphobic things softly, but he means well.”
She adds, “Next is Luigi.
Luigi is totally a demisexual dude, but he just calls himself queer because it’s too confusing.
“He has a great bi-female energy.
Mario, left, ‘came out so long ago most people forgot’, while ‘Princess Daisy is described as ‘hello bisexual, polyamorous and she’ll ask straight for you’
Luigi, left, is identified as a “demisexual dude” who “just calls himself queer,” while Princess Peach, right, is a “huge cis lesbian,” says Elliott
‘Trans? Trans. And it’s probably bisexual, but don’t think about it too much, because if you don’t think about it, it’s not a problem.’
“Demisexuality” refers to people who only feel sexual attraction to another person if they first form a strong emotional connection or bond with them.
She goes on to call Toad “a pre-menopausal trans girl.”
“She already has a whole new wardrobe with thigh highs and skirts for when she comes out,” Elliot says in the clip.
In other clips, the teacher revealed that she talked to her school’s deputy principal about how to tell her class that she is polyamorous.
Polyamory refers to people having multiple romantic or sexual relationships.
Seen in one video by Fox newsshe said she is proud to be “a teacher who is very open about her life.”
Toad, left, is a “pre-transitioned trans girl,” says Elliott who has recently invested in thighs and skirts, while Yoshi is described as a trans man who just had “amazing” surgery on his upper body. Top surgery is the removal of breast tissue when a woman transitions into a man
Elliott regularly uploads videos to TikTok discussing conversations she has with her students
In other clips, she discusses whether or not she should talk to her classes about being polyamorous, meaning having multiple sexual and romantic partners.
“And one of the things I’m very open about is my sexuality,” Elliott explains.
“I have a trans flag, a bi(sexual) flag, a non-binary flag all on my desk at work. But there’s one thing I’m not open about, and that’s being poly(amorous).
“I don’t know how to have that conversation because even though I know the kids are more accepting of things like homosexuality, bisexuality, all that, polyamory isn’t in the conversation.”
She added that she didn’t like feeling like she was “lying” to her students.
After talking to her administrators, they agreed that it would be appropriate for Elliott to talk about her relationships with her students.
She then lashed out at “conservatives” who didn’t have such open discussions with children.
She said, “This is not a conservative conversation at all. They’ve decided… like, you can’t do this at all, there’s no room for it.
And that just shows such a lack of attention and care. They don’t understand people. They are children as people and where they are.’
When contacted about the Nintendo publication, Elliott recounted Fox news digital that “the slides you mentioned were made as a joke.”
She added, “It’s also odd to point out that they have genders and sexualities, since a cisgender heterosexual man is basically a gender and sexual orientation.”
“As part of my DOE employment, despite being hired primarily as an English teacher, teaching our established and vetted sex education curriculum wasn’t just something I was hired to do, it was something I was trained and qualified to do.”
She added that she only spoke about her personal life “within reason.”
WhatsNew2Day.com reached out to Elliott and the New York Department of Education for comment.