The Federalist: If you think the transgender movement is confined to college campuses and social justice warriors on Twitter, I have bad news for you. A high school French teacher in Virginia was fired last week by the West Point Public School Board for refusing to use a transgender student’s new pronoun.
News of the firing comes nearly a month after a school district in Florida punished a male P.E. teacher for refusing to supervise a self-described transgender girl who was granted access to the boys’ locker room under a new transgender policy.
In the Virginia case, the school board took things a step further, firing a teacher who didn’t violate a specific policy but simply refused a demand from a transgender student. The teacher, Peter Vlaming, is a married father of four and by all accounts well-liked by his students. About 100 students staged a walkout last week to protest his firing from West Point High School, where he taught for the past seven years.
Far from being cruel and disrespectful to the student in question—a biological girl who is posing as male—Vlaming met with her and her parents and offered to use the girl’s new name in class and avoid feminine pronouns. But he was not willing to say “he” or “him” when referring to the student in conversations with others, citing his Christian faith as the reason.
The issue came to a head when the student was wearing virtual reality goggles in the hallway and was about to run into a wall. Vlaming, seeing what was about to happen, blurted out, “Don’t let her run into the wall!” The girl’s parents heard about the incident and decided it was unhealthy for their child to remain in Vlaming’s class. He was placed on administrative leave while the school board investigated, and eventually told he could return to work only if he started using male pronouns for the student and met with her parents to tell them so. Vlaming declined, and was fired.
Here is a situation where a man with sincere religious convictions, as well as a belief about biological reality that was nearly universal only a few years ago, was trying to compromise and be as respectful as his conscience would allow him to be. It wasn’t enough. School officials, likely terrified of what would happen to them if they didn’t deliver Vlaming’s head on a platter to this student and her family, were only too willing to ruin the man.
There Will Be Real-Life Consequences for Dissent
Setting aside the specifics of this case—including the rather on-the-nose symbolism of Vlaming trying to prevent a trans student wearing virtual reality goggles from running into a wall—what happened here should alarm every American, not just Christians or conservatives. more here
The mentally ill are almost running the country now. Just imagine in 5 years!
It is not surprising that perversion has taken hold in America what is surprising is how fast it happened!
So, the pronoun IT no longer has justification or meaning?
No one should be legally sued for honestly mistaking a genderly confused individual.
If so, than using a bathroom by a genderly confused individual needs some education. Yes, education!
Kinda simple.
If your swinging a penis in the girls room, you screwed up.
If your squatting over a wall urinal, you screwed up.
It’s OK to screw up, until you get called out for it.
At that point before asking for legal representation, seek some mental illness counseling, might also consider CPS or foster care.
The More You Know – NBC
And I’m not interested, in the mental illne-… I mean, “transgender” 🙄 movement. Does that make it a wash?
When Freedom of Speech has “Consequences”, welcome to Yosef’s and Adolph’s playpen! That’s why I no longer live in Virginia, which (for the people who fired this American), Virginia is for inbreds!
REMEMBER!!!!!!!!
MEN ARE FROM MARS!!!!!!,
WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS!!!!!<
All other genders are from…
URANUS!!!!!!!!!!!
GOT THAT???????
Audentes, Fortuna, Ivat!!!,
skybill-out
Ok, so lets not compromise!
Obama’s sick legacy.
@SKYBILL
REMEMBER!!!!!!!!
MEN ARE FROM MARS!!!!!!,
WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS!!!!!<
All other genders are from…
URANUS!!!!!!!!!!!
GOT THAT???????
Actully it should read "all other genders use uranus."
The Island of Miss-Fit Genders is starting to look better and better. Send them there.
Lets us use Math in regards to the Over Hyped Trannie/Trans-gender activists demands and situation.
LGBT equals roughly 3.5% +/- of the population.
Note that is all of the LGBT’s not just the “T’s”.
Of that 3.5% less than 4% are Trannies so we are talking 0.14% of 1% of the population. The USA has a Population of about 340M so this equals about 476K Trannies. A medical study in 2009-10 showed that about 1 in 30K males and 1 in 100K females got the surgery to change sexes.
Given the current 98.65 men for every 100 women population in 2016 we have just about equal match numbers now. So using 476K divided in half as a baseline and 1 in 30k Males we have about 8 males each year actually getting Sex Changes and using the 1 in 100k for females almost 3 Females get the sex change each year.
So over a period of 20 years we are talking about 8m + 3f x 20 = 220? people.
So for 220+/- People diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (a Mental illness not a physical illness) that actually get the change over 20 years. They want us to change America’s social norms to accommodate that 220+/- or 0.00006470588235294117% of 1% .
BTW: In the USA it is next to impossible to get a Sex Change prior to an 18th birthday, so that cuts the numbers even further.
A person with sincere religious convictions, does not take sacks of the Devil’s silver. To preach in Hell, to the Devil’s satisfaction. Even if they claim to refuse to speak the Devil’s lies, while they’re on the clock.
Wouldn’t ‘compromise’ require all transgenders to be hermaphrodites?