VA Teacher Fired For Using Wrong Pronouns

Let's say you have a 6'4 man named Frank in your phy-ed class and you are the teacher.  One day Frank announces to you that his name is Jenny and he now thinks he's a girl.  Later in class you divide up the boys and girls to play a game of soccer and you point to Frank and tell him to go play with the boys.

Uh-oh.  You might get fired for that 'mistake'.

In this article we find a teacher fired for refusing to call a girl, "he" and "him".

Vlaming told superiors that his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for the student. Vlaming said he had the student in class the year before when the student identified as female.

Vlaming’s attorney, Shawn Voyles, says his client offered to use the student’s name and to avoid feminine pronouns, but Voyles says the school was unwilling to accept the compromise.

“That discrimination then leads to creating a hostile learning environment. And the student had expressed that. The parent had expressed that,” said West Point schools Superintendent Laura Abel. “They felt disrespected.”

Nondiscrimination policies were updated a year ago to include protections for gender identity, but didn’t include guidance on gender pronoun use, according to Vlaming’s lawyer, Voyles, who notes Vlaming has constitutional rights.

“One of those rights that is not curtailed is to be free from being compelled to speak something that violates your conscience,” Voyles said.

Vlaming said he loves and respects all his students but when a solution he tried to reach based on “mutual tolerance” was rejected, he was at risk of losing his job for having views held by “most of the world for most of human history.”

“That is not tolerance,” Vlaming said. “That is coercion.”

Vlaming is considering a legal appeal, but said he wants to consult with his attorney before announcing further steps.

“I have to research how we would do that, what that would entail,” Vlaming said. “I do think it’s a serious question of First Amendment rights.”

Equality Virginia, an LGBTQ-rights group, said the situation reveals the need for “statewide guidance” that will protect all students from discrimination at school.

Here;  https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/teacher-fired-refusing-use-transgender-student-s-pronouns-n946006

Next up in the land of insanity we are being coerced into will be, "This white boy now identifies as a black girl, so please refer to her as African-American."  And, "this white high school girl now identifies as an 11 yr old African-American boy so please allow him to play on the 6th grade boys basketball team."

There is no end to the insanity that the LGBTQI has led us into...that the liberals have gobbled up like mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving.