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.”
The case involved Peter Vlaming, who has been teaching French at West Point High School in King William County, Virginia, since 2012. Near the end of the 2017-2018 school year, a female student at Vlaming’s French class started to identify as male and wished to be referred to with male pronouns….