Rewire.News: Conservatives Claim Religious ‘Hostility’ When They Face Consequences for Refusing to Use Students’ Pronouns
“[W]e are here today because a specific worldview is being imposed upon me,” said West Point High School French teacher Peter Vlaming at a public hearing in early December. In fact, Vlaming was at the hearing that day because the West Point Public School (WPPS) District in Virginia had placed him on administrative leave in October, after he continually refused on religious grounds to use a A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more student’s pronouns. This, the district determined, violated its policy against The act of favoring members of one community/social identity over another, impacting health, prosperity, and political participation. Learn more on the basis of gender identity.
— Heron Greenesmith