The Virginia school board will pay $575,000 to a fired teacher who refused to use the pronouns of transgender students

The West Point school board agreed to pay Peter Vlaming, a former high school French teacher, $575,000 in damages and legal fees after he refused to refer to a transgender student by his desired pronouns.

The settlement came several months after the Virginia Supreme Court reinstated Vlaming’s case, which the King William Circuit Court dismissed. The lower court did not believe that Vlaming had good reason for the law to accept his lawsuit.

However, the Supreme Court ruled in December that the school board violated Vlaming’s rights.

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