Virginia’s Supreme Court has sided with a teacher after he challenged a school district mandate of affirming transgender identities. Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in the Loudoun County Public School District, spoke at a May school board meeting against policies requiring teachers to refer to students by their preferred gender pronouns. After he was suspended by his school district for allegedly making a “disruptive impact,” Virginia’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that he should not have been suspended. The legal group representing the teacher welcomed Monday’s decision. “Teachers shouldn’t be forced to promote ideologies that are harmful to their students and that they believe are false, nor should they be silenced for commenting at a public meeting,” said Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom and director of its Center for Academic Freedom.
Virginia Supreme Court Reinstates Teacher who Objected to Transgender Pronoun Mandate| National Catholic Register
Virginia Supreme Court Reinstates Teacher who Objected to Transgender Pronoun Mandate| National Catholic Register
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