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A Virginia teacher was terminated on Thursday for not using a transgender student's chosen pronoun because of religious reasons.
The West Point School Board voted unanimously to fire Peter Vlaming, who taught French at West Point High School, for refusing to refer to a ninth-grader by male pronouns when he perceived the student to be female, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The vote came on the heels of a recommendation by the West Point schools superintendent to terminate Vlaming.
The student transitioned over the summer and his family notified school officials of the student's new name and chosen pronoun at that time, according to the paper. Vlaming used the new name without issue, but allegedly avoided using any pronouns to address the student, making him feel isolated, the Times-Dispatch reported.
"Vlaming, 47, who had taught at the school for almost seven years after spending more than a decade in France, told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for a student he saw as female."
"Vlaming, 47, who had taught at the school for almost seven years after spending more than a decade in France, told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for a student he saw as female."
"Vlaming, 47, who had taught at the school for almost seven years after spending more than a decade in France, told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for a student he saw as female."
hmm. common sense prevents me from doing this.
Its like looking at a cat, and being forced to call it a dog. No matter how much you try to look at the cat and see a dog. It will still be a cat.
Where does one draw the line between being respectful and being politically-correct? It would be funny if he was English teacher as all these pronouns makes it hard for proper English (whatever that might be) to be taught.
I don't understand what his religion had to do with it.
He brought his religion into it when he explained it would not let him refer to the student as the student wished.
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