A teacher who refused to call a student by his preferred masculine pronouns and was fired for doing so has now sued the school district claiming that using the requested pronouns would be “telling a lie.”
In 2018 Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School in Virginia, was told by a student who had recently transitioned to use their preferred masculine pronouns,. Vlaming refused, claiming religious reasons, but was told by the school that he had to use the student’s correct pronouns or face disciplinary action. Vlaming used feminine pronouns when describing the student several months after the warning and was ultimately fired, with the school citing insubordination.
The lawsuit isn’t surprising given the level of hostility many trans and gender nonconforming students face in school. From arguments about whether teens
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