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A Virginia public-school teacher who was placed on paid administrative leave after objecting to the district’s proposed transgender policy has sued the district, the Loudon Times-Mirror reported.

Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical-education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, objected at a school-board meeting last week to a proposed policy that would require teachers to refer to students by their preferred gender pronouns. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by Cross’s attorneys alleges the suspension violated his right to free speech.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

If it's already state law, why is the school board even pending discussion to pass some proposed redundant district policy? Why bother having a meeting except to state that "yeah we're going to comply with this." What did gym teacher guy say exactly that got him suspended?

Without knowing more, it still seems like they were putting their feelers out for potential liabilities, and then acting before the fact. Disingenuous.

“I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them regardless of the consequences,” Cross told the school board at a meeting May 25. “I am 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’s against my religion. It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God.”

Some of this is due to my own personal experience. Starting back when I first came out, in middle school, the most vehemently and even violently homophobic reactions came from my black peers. When I finally changed schools to escape the harassment, most of my friends were white, because they were the ones who could accept my being out. Most of my black peers wither (a) tried to ignore it or (b) tried to convince me that I could “change.” When one black girl said to me in public, during field trip, “God doesn’t want you to be that way,” it was a white female friend who stood up to her and said “Don’t you do that to him!” while the rest of my black peers seemed not to hear or notice the exchange. That was pretty typical of my experiences.

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Police declared an unlawful assembly at a Loudoun County, Va., School Board meeting Tuesday after residents clashed regarding the district’s proposed policies on transgender students.

The proposal in question, known as policy proposal 8040, would require teachers to use a child’s preferred gender pronouns. The board closed public comments at its meeting on Tuesday night after multiple interruptions by residents in the crowd.

After several speakers voiced support for the proposal, a woman who said she was the mother of a transgender student was booed after saying “hate” was “dripping from the followers of Jesus in this room.” The board called a five-minute recess and said public comments would be closed if any additional disturbance were made.

After other residents spoke both in favor and against the proposal, former state senator Dick Black criticized the board over its alleged backing of the policies as well as critical race theory. Residents cheered Black, prompting the board to close public comments by a vote of 9-0.

Parents began singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” after comments were closed.