The Virginia Supreme Court on Aug. 30 upheld a lower court decision to reinstate a gym teacher who spoke at a school board meeting against a proposal to require calling transgender students by their preferred pronouns. On June 6, a county circuit court judge had ordered that teacher Tanner Cross be reinstated after he was suspended over his comments. Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James Plowman ruled that Tanner was exercising his First Amendment rights. Plowman directed Loudoun County Public Schools to immediately reinstate Tanner pending a full trial. A trial in the case is set for next week. During a school board meeting on May 25, Tanner said he would not abide by the transgender pronoun rules due to his religious conviction. “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 is against my …