The Virginia State Supreme Court just issued a ruling that means good news for the effort to stop the progressive agenda from indoctrinating children through the education system. The court has reinstated a teacher's lawsuit against his school district for attempting to force him to use transgender pronouns in the classroom.
This case, along with others, could have some positive consequences for those pushing back against the progressive effort to shove its trans agenda down everyone else’s throats.
The lawsuit alleges that the district is violating the teacher’s right to practice his religion by forcing him to violate his Christian beliefs.
A lawsuit filed by a Virginia high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student’s pronouns was reinstated Thursday by the state Supreme Court.
Peter Vlaming, a former French teacher at West Point High School, sued the school board and administrators at West Point High School after he was fired in 2018. A judge dismissed the lawsuit before any evidence was heard in the case. But the Supreme Court overturned that ruling and said the lawsuit can proceed to trial.
Vlaming claimed in his lawsuit that he tried to accommodate a transgender student in his class by using his masculine name and avoiding the use of pronouns, but the student, his parents and the school told him he was required to use the student's male pronouns.
Vlaming said he could not use the student’s pronouns because of his “sincerely held religious and philosophical” beliefs “that each person’s sex is biologically fixed and cannot be changed.” Vlaming also said he would be lying if he used the student’s pronouns.
This is a positive development. The court’s decision is not a mere legal matter, it is a cultural flashpoint. It is a major step in the overall battle against the machinations of the Marxist crowd, which seeks to use schools to influence young minds. It could also be a milestone in the fight against those seeking to infringe on religious freedoms.
The broader debate continues to rage on in the airwaves and interwebs. Concerned parents continue to show up at school board meetings despite being labeled as domestic terrorists. More people are waking up to what the left is trying to do through the government school system.
However, the legal battles are the ones that will do the most to reverse the tide, which is why the court’s ruling is so encouraging. This might turn out to be yet another legal proceeding that hits school districts in their wallets, where it truly hurts. It is an example of people fighting back against the government’s effort to infringe on parental, religious, and free speech rights.
As this case proceeds, the lawyers will likely be making arguments that will be used in other such cases. In fact, two other teachers are fighting a similar policy in California’s Escondido Union School District.
The teachers are suing the district over a mandate to deceive parents about students’ gender identity, a policy that not only violates parental rights but also the teachers’ right to practice their religion.
This case could have tremendous ramifications for the debate over gender identity in the classroom.
Two Christian California teachers are advancing legal action against a school district over its gender policy, which a lawsuit alleges compels teachers to "lie to parents" about students' secret gender transitions.
Plaintiff Lori Ann West is a devout Christian and Elizabeth Mirabelli is a devout Roman Catholic. Both work at Rincon Middle School in the Escondido Union School District. Both requested religious accommodation from the district regarding parental notification for the transgender policy, according to the suit.
"I just looked around the room like, is this real? This is really happening? This seems crazy. This seems like the school wants to take over to be the parent. And as a parent, I would not want that for my own children," West said on the moment she heard about the policy in an interview with Fox News Digital.
There will likely be even more of these cases popping up as more teachers receive legal representation and start filing even more lawsuits. The rest of these legal challenges cannot come soon enough.