I've read otherwise but please let us know how old he was when they met.A little research would tell you that he didn’t meet her when she was 16, he didn’t award her the scholarship, the Governor of TN did.
He met her when she was in college, while that may be tacky, a 19 year old is not a child, and certainly not similar to an elementary teacher teaching 5-8 year olds about sex and gender.
Do you honestly believe that anyone other than a child’s parents or at least have their approval need to be discussing those things to a 5-8 year old? How hard is it to simply admit that shouldn’t be occurring in school?