Most people fired for refusing to go along with this lunatic tranny agenda are not receiving half a million dollars.
But hey – at least someone is.
It’s better than Europe, I guess.
A Virginia school board must fork over more than $500,000 to a former French teacher who was fired in 2018 for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.
The teacher, Peter Vlaming, along with Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit against the district, arguing his termination was a violation of his religious beliefs.
“I was wrongfully fired from my teaching job because my religious beliefs put me on a collision course with school administrators who mandated that teachers ascribe to only one perspective on gender identity—their preferred view,” Vlaming said in a statement following the settlement agreement.
“I loved teaching French and gracefully tried to accommodate every student in my class, but I couldn’t say something that directly violated my conscience.”
Peter Vlaming
As part of the terms of the settlement, the West Point School Board will pay the former teacher $575,000 in damages and legal fees as well as expunge the wrongful dismissal from his record.
In a shift unrelated to the suit, the district also said it will alter its policies to align with state education guidelines put in place by Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, which allows K-12 teachers in the state to refer to transgender students by their birth name and gender regardless of their gender identity, The Hill writes.
Celebrating these things are “victories” is probably not all that helpful.
It’s a bit like a Palestinian child finding a puddle he can drink from.
Although this “woke” nonsense is being rolled back pretty significantly, that was clearly inevitable. The tranny stuff and the “just let blacks commit crimes because of slavery hundreds of years ago” stuff was always too goofy to stick. But by promoting this gibberish for a half-decade, the landscape has been changed, and these woke ideas are at least considered acceptable views, even if they’ve largely given up on trying to force everyone to adopt them.
The plan now is to just continue pushing it on children. The last five or so years were a “shock and awe” campaign to normalize the ideas enough that they can be pushed on children. If Glenn Youngkin was anything other than a faggot coward, he would ban children from using fake names and pronouns in schools, not simply allow teachers to say the real ones. He would tell the public that anyone confused about whether they are a boy or a girl belongs in a psychiatric ward, not a public school.
But nah.
Do you know how hard it is to teach French without using pronouns?
ADF Client Peter Vlaming gave it a shot to accommodate a transgender student… but he slipped up—once.
And he was fired for it.
Here’s his story: https://t.co/qvHfz4fBeh pic.twitter.com/zFNf5qsDZH
— Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) August 25, 2020
Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article.