Teacher who rejected transgender student's pronouns WINS $575K in court

Here's a bigtime victory for a teacher! This guy refused to use a transgender student's incorrect pronouns and got fired. He took it to the Virginia court system. He ended getting the Virginia school board to agree to a massive payout of $575k AND cover the attorney fees. Wow! Peter Vlaming spoke of mutual tolerance in the sense that he doesn't have to believe what other people believe, and vice versa.

He respects the student for what they want to do, but mutual tolerance means the teachers, and no one else, should be forced to use incorrect pronouns or believe in an ideology that they don't agree with. No one should be forced to embrace a random ideology just because someone wants us to, that's OUR choice to make.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yymtcFSO84


UPI reported the details below:

A Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575K in damages and attorneys fees to a former high school teacher who was fired for refusing to use a transgender student's requested pronouns.

In addition to Monday's financial settlement, West Point School Board agreed to change its policies and clear teacher Peter Vlaming's firing from its record. The agreement comes nearly a year after Virginia's Supreme Court reinstated Vlaming's lawsuit, which was filed by the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom.

"Peter wasn't fired for something he said; he was fired for something he couldn't say. The school board violated his First Amendment rights under the Virginia Constitution and commonwealth law," said ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhofer.