Eyyy.
We’re back on top again…!
French teacher Peter Vlaming was fired in 2018 for shunning the use of pronouns to refer to a transgender-identifying student. On Sept. 30, the West Point School Board in Virginia agreed to pay him $575,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees.
“I’m so relieved that our basic fundamental rights of freedom of expression, of freedom of religion have been formally upheld,” Vlaming told The Daily Signal.
The School Board cleared Vlaming’s termination from his record and changed its policies to conform to the new Virginia education policies established by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va.
Vlaming is a Christian, so he believes God created male and female. Still, the teacher was willing to respect the rights of his students to disagree.
When one of his female students started identifying as male, Vlaming avoided referring to her with pronouns, instead using her preferred name. On Halloween of 2018, his students participated in a virtual reality tour of French catacombs, during which the transgender-identifying student almost ran into a wall.
“Don’t let her hit the wall!” Vlaming called out instinctively.
Haha.
Should have let her do it. Silly bitch.
The student called her parents, who complained to the school. Vlaming was placed on administrative leave and given an ultimatum that he would be fired if he didn’t use preferred personal pronouns. Vlaming refused to comply and was fired.
Nearly six years later, Vlaming, represented by the religious liberty nonprofit law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, won his case.
With this extremist leftist stuff, it’s always two steps forward, one step back. That’s the way it’s always progressed. If you go back and look at mainstream films in the 1970s, it was basically all full frontal nudity, and people complained so they walked it back. The forced school integration was tacitly walked back some when they allowed districting to segregate racially across the country. Everything gets halfway walked back. It doesn’t mean anything important.
In 2020-2023, they did more than two steps forward. It was two Superman-style leaps forward. Now we’re taking one step back, and saying “okay, well, some of this stuff was sort of insane.”
It’s a mild reprieve.
Interview after he won