A Virginia court ruled Tuesday that a county school must reinstate a gym teacher who was suspended for opposing the requirement that all teachers use students' preferred pronouns.
Circuit Court Judge James E. Plowman Jr. ordered the Loudoun County School System to reinstate teacher Byron "Tanner" Cross and to lift its ban on his entering any county school building or grounds.
"Educators are just like everybody else - they have ideas and opinions that they should be free to express," Tyson Langhofer, one of Cross' lawyers, said in a written statement celebrating the judge's decision.
"Advocating for solutions they believe in should not cost [teachers] their jobs. School officials singled out his speech, offered in his private capacity at a public meeting, as 'disruptive' and then suspended him for speaking his mind," he continued. "That's neither legal nor constitutional. Dozens of other teachers have shared their beliefs on various policies without retaliation; Tanner deserves to be treated with the same respect.Plowman said he will need to know by June 16 whether the school board or Cross seeks a trial. His order will remain in place until December 31, the
Daily Signal reports. At a rally, Cross said that he spoke out against the pronoun policy in Christian faith.
"Many of us are concerned that proposed policies would harm students and require us to violate our beliefs by saying things that are not true," Cross said. "Public schools should not punish teachers like me for sharing our beliefs." The incident occurred on May 25 at a school board hearing. Cross spoke out against policy changes that would require him and other teachers to refer to elementary school students by their preferred personal pronouns, regardless of biological sex. "I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them, regardless of the consequences," Cross said at the public forum. "I'm a teacher but I serve God first, and I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa, because it's against my religion."Two days later, the Loudon school district placed him on administrative leave and banned him from stepping onto school grounds.
When you are talking to someone directly, do you ever refer to the person you are talking to as him, her, it, they, them or whatever? I don't and I can't think of anytime, but if they are not in the room you usually refer to that person (after establishing who they are by name) as any of these so-called pronouns. Weather or not you use their prefered pronoun is none of their efing business, cause they aint there.
When addressing a group of people, it's men, women, boys, girls, since men can be women and women can be men. Better yet, just refer to the crowd as everyone. No need for trans, since they are either man or women and you covered that already by saying men and women. Baphomet is probably a better designation than trans, it's catchier.
So when the purple green haired thing, tells me their pronuon is what ever, I have no reason to address them face to face other than by their name, not their pronoun. After all, when being polite in any language, you have to speak in properly formed sentences.
Just because someones feelings get hurt, doesn't mean they are right, proper or the be all to end all.
For all you "it's" out there, you hurt my feelings everytime you tell me to call you "it", because you are trying to control who I am and how I think, and that is morally wrong.