Fired Virginia teacher Peter Vlaming received $575,000 for the pronoun case

High school teacher Peter Vlaming, who taught high school French at West Point for about seven years, filed a $1 million lawsuit against the West Point school board in 2019 after his former employer fired him, according to reports Court documents show.

According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Vlaming avoided using “he/him” pronouns when referring to a student who had transferred and instead used the student’s preferred name.

According to previous local media reports and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit organization, school leaders asked him to stop using pronouns to refer to the student who had transferred and instead use the student’s preferred pronouns for ” he/him” to use legal group.