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TomSea:

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WEST POINT, Va. — A Virginia high school teacher who refused to use a transgender student's new pronouns has been fired.

News outlets report that the West Point School Board voted unanimously Thursday to dismiss Peter Vlaming after a four-hour hearing that drew an overflow crowd. The school system said in a statement that Vlaming was fired for insubordination.

Over the summer, the ninth-grade student's family informed the school system of the student's gender transition to male. The student wasn't involved in Thursday's hearing.

Continued at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-use-trans-students-pronouns/ar-BBQCYqD?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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I hope some legal organization might take up his plight though, in this world, they may not win. He didn't even say it to this student but in speaking with others.

DB:
Might as well demand the teacher say blue is red. Same difference. A basic denial of reality.

Fishrrman:
Hopefully this teacher will be able to find work in a private school somewhere that doesn't put up with politcally-correct B.S. ...

rangerrebew:
Teacher Sues After Firing for Not Using Male Pronouns for Female Student Who Identifies as Male
 

A high school French teacher in Virginia is suing the school board after they fired him for refusing to refer to a female student who identifies as a male as “he.”

Peter Vlaming was placed on administrative leave last October and then fired from West Point High School in Williamsburg, Va., in December because he refused to use male pronouns for the transgender student.

According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Vlaming, who filed a lawsuit in the case, the teacher used the student’s preferred male name, but avoided using male pronouns altogether.
 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/teacher-sues-after-firing-not-using-male-pronouns-female-student-who-identifies

PeteS in CA:
Teacher sues school district after being fired for refusing to use transgender pronouns

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/teacher-takes-school-district-court-after-being-fired-refusing-use


--- Quote ---Peter Vlaming was a history and French professor at West Point High School in West Point, Virginia, in 2018 when a female student of his announced a transition to a male identity and requested that her instructors refer to her using male pronouns.

Vlaming refused to do so, though he claims he initially struck an amicable compromise with the student in question. ...

The school finally told him that if he used female pronouns to refer to the student – or even if the district suspected he was using her name to avoid referring to her pronouns altogether – he would be terminated.
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