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Virginia Supreme Court Backs Teacher Fired For Not Using Student’s Preferred Pronouns
Daily Wire ^ | 12/14/23 | Hank Berrien

Posted on 12/14/2023 7:23:38 PM PST by CFW

On Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a high school teacher who was fired for refusing to use pronouns that didn’t match a student’s biological sex could have his lawsuit against the local school board reinstated.

Peter Vlaming taught French in the West Point School District for seven years. A female student claiming to be male had a new preferred name. Vlaming used the new preferred name but simply avoided using the student’s preferred pronouns. The school demanded he use the student’s preferred pronouns, even when the student was not present.

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The Virginia Supreme Court agreed that the Virginia Constitution “seeks to protect diversity of thought, diversity of speech, diversity of religion, and diversity of opinion,” adding, “Absent a truly compelling reason for doing so, no government committed to these principles can lawfully coerce its citizens into pledging verbal allegiance to ideological views that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: censorship; education; firstamendment; freespeech; homofascism; lawsuit; pronouns; resisttyranny; supremecourt; virginia; westpointschool; xyxx
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It is a shame that he had to go to the state's Supreme Court to have his Constitutional rights upheld. There needs to be severe punishment (not just a pay-out by taxpayers) for those in positions of authority who willingly violate a person's rights in such a manner.
1 posted on 12/14/2023 7:23:38 PM PST by CFW
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But wait... fag lovers Gorsuch, the frat boy, and Traitor Roberts haven’t issued their judicial fiats yet!


2 posted on 12/14/2023 7:26:36 PM PST by imabadboy99
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I’d like to see all of you who jump on the guys pretending to be girls, go after this girl pretending to be a guy with spthe same zest and fervor.

Please, do so. Don’t be hypocrites just because the guys get a trophy.


3 posted on 12/14/2023 7:27:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Imagine if the poor dear had been told to sit in the corner with a dunce cap on.


4 posted on 12/14/2023 7:28:30 PM PST by simpson96
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if only he had only called for the genocide of all Jews! the school would have embraced his free speech then!


5 posted on 12/14/2023 7:35:46 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Secret Agent Man

Exactly, this girl is just pretending to be a boy.


6 posted on 12/14/2023 7:36:20 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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"I’d like to see all of you who jump on the guys pretending to be girls, go after this girl pretending to be a guy with spthe same zest and fervor. Please, do so. Don’t be hypocrites just because the guys get a trophy."

WTF? Weird is weird - as is obvious to absolutely anyone who has a normal drop of blood in their veins. What the heck is your story?

7 posted on 12/14/2023 7:36:25 PM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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Hope he costs the school a billion.


8 posted on 12/14/2023 7:49:59 PM PST by KC Burke
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And starts his own brand of private schools and kills the public school system in Virginia. Start in a small county in va. and let superiority win out.


9 posted on 12/14/2023 8:04:17 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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“Vlaming used the new preferred name but simply avoided using the student’s preferred pronouns. The school demanded he use the student’s preferred pronouns, even when the student was not present.”

Pronouns are used in place of nouns, but there is no grammatical requirement that a pronoun MUST be used - in a given situation, it’s nobody’s damn business whether I (or anybody else) uses a pronoun at all. If the kid doesn’t want to be offended, I won’t offend the kid by using any pronoun - but what that faction wants is for everyone to bend the knee to their ideology. Kudos for this teacher for maintaining his integrity.


10 posted on 12/14/2023 8:15:13 PM PST by Stosh
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>>with spthe same zest and fervor

They would be triggered and start crying.

11 posted on 12/14/2023 8:15:44 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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The reason there’s no Feeding Frenzy here for this fake boy, is that she’s not going to get in men’s sports and beat them up or take their trophies. She’s not going to get in the men’s locker room and get sexually aroused oogling and harassing the boys.

She just doesn’t present the kind of physical threat to others that boys pretending to be girls do.

Which leaves us with a mentally ill girl and a school system run by evil fascists.


12 posted on 12/14/2023 9:23:29 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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That is all immaterial. Its the same mental illness regardless of what kind of body its in. Its so superficial to base only going after one group with the mental illness because we don’t like what they’re doing, and ignore and give the other group a complete pass.

I wouldn’t want her in the locker room with me or on my team.


13 posted on 12/14/2023 9:50:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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- but what that faction wants is for everyone to bend the knee to their ideology.

Exactly. Submission.

14 posted on 12/15/2023 3:04:34 AM PST by Lizavetta
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The existence of a leftist school board in a place like King William County, Virginia, which Trump carried by an over 2:1 margin in 2020 and has been won by Republican Presidential candidates since 1952, even by Goldwater in 1964, is unfortunately too typical. The failure of conservative voters to pay attention to local elections allows the liberal minority to get their minions onto school boards, city councils, and county commissions. These bodies are the breeding grounds for the state legislatures and the U.S. Congress.


15 posted on 12/15/2023 3:19:26 AM PST by Wallace T.
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These bodies are the breeding grounds for the state legislatures and the U.S. Congress.

Precisely.

Although in the case of South Dakota our only Representative got there via activity on the Public Utilities Commission, an elected position. Just keep your eyes open as I would add all elected positions could be used as stepping stones to someone’s political future.

So, rather than pursuing an elected office as a desire to be a servant of the people, for a limited amount of time, that success leads to ambitions best left to the politically classless seeking office for all the wrong reasons. They are more than likely those with horrible Constitutional scores on voter guides in every State in these United States and very often described as Democrat or RINO Republican.


16 posted on 12/15/2023 3:46:42 AM PST by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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I just say, “I use the name and sex written in the roster. If you want it to change, see a judge.”


17 posted on 12/15/2023 5:05:05 AM PST by struggle
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My brother is a teacher. He refuses to play the pronoun game. He hates it but he no longer gets to know his students and refers to them solely by their last name or “you.”


18 posted on 12/15/2023 5:39:50 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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I wasn’t agreeing with the idea that we shouldn’t go after this deranged girl. I’m simply stating why I think there is not a similar reaction to what happens when a boy pretends to be a girl


19 posted on 12/15/2023 6:50:48 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Secret Agent Man

she needs to be treated for her mental problems. The thing is, it’s probably pretty difficult to find a psychologist that doesn’t buy into this current insanity


20 posted on 12/15/2023 9:38:04 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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