Virginia AG Sides With High School Teacher Fired for Rejecting Transgender Pronoun Demands

Virginia AG Sides With High School Teacher Fired for Rejecting Transgender Pronoun Demands
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has sided in a lawsuit with a high school French teacher who was fired for not using male pronouns for a female student.

In a brief filed on May 24, Miyares said the public school district “transgresses Virginia’s longstanding constitutional protections” when it punished a teacher for “refusing to express a belief he does not hold, and that is contrary to his faith.”