Loudoun Co. teacher who spoke against transgender-pronoun policy must be reinstated by school system

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    Teacher who spoke against transgender-pronoun policy must be reinstated by school system: judge


    A Virginia judge ruled Tuesday that a public school district must temporarily reinstate a gym teacher who was suspended after he told officials that he refuses to call transgender students by their pronouns. Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James E. Plowman Jr. granted a temporary injunction requiring the Loudoun County Public Schools district to immediately reinstate Leesburg Elementary School teacher Byron Tanner Cross while his lawsuit continues. “The plaintiff’s interest in expressing his First Amendment speech outweigh the defendants’ interest in restricting the same, and the level of disruption that defendant asserts did not serve to meaningfully disrupt the operation ...


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    Teacher's Case Over Comments On Trans Students Might Go To Virginia Supreme Court

    The legal battle over a Loudoun County teacher's stance on how to refer to transgender students is continuing, with the opposing sides now arguing over whether the Virginia Supreme Court should take up the matter or not. Attorneys for the teacher, Byron Tanner Cross, asked the court on Wednesday to reject an appeal from Loudoun County Public Schools, which is fighting a lower court's decision mandating that Cross be reinstated after he was suspended for declaring he would not refer to transgender students by their correct pronouns. WTOP was first to report this latest development in the case. Cross, a ...


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    Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Reinstatement Teacher Who Opposes Transgender Policy

    The Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling Monday that ordered Loudoun County Public Schools to reinstate a gym teacher who spoke against a proposal requiring that transgender students be addressed by their preferred pronouns. Tanner Cross, a teacher at Leesburg Elementary, was suspended after a May 25 school board meeting where he said that he could not abide by proposed rules that would require teachers to address transgender students by their chosen gender. “I’m a teacher, but I serve God first. And I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because ...


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    Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Reinstatement of Teacher Who Opposes Transgender Policy

    The Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling Monday that ordered Loudoun County Public Schools to reinstate a gym teacher who spoke against a proposal requiring that transgender students be addressed by their preferred pronouns. Tanner Cross, a teacher at Leesburg Elementary, was suspended after a May 25 school board meeting where he said that he could not abide by proposed rules that would require teachers to address transgender students by their chosen gender. “I’m a teacher, but I serve God first. And I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because ...


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    Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Reinstatement of Teacher Who Opposes Transgender Policy

    The Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling Monday that ordered Loudoun County Public Schools to reinstate a gym teacher who spoke against a proposal requiring that transgender students be addressed by their preferred pronouns. Tanner Cross, a teacher at Leesburg Elementary, was suspended after a May 25 school board meeting where he said that he could not abide by proposed rules that would require teachers to address transgender students according to their chosen gender. “I’m a teacher, but I serve God first. And I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa, ...


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    Virginia Supreme Court reinstates teacher who objected to transgender pronoun mandate

    Virginia’s Supreme Court has sided with a teacher after he challenged a school district mandate of affirming transgender identities. Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in the Loudoun County Public School District, spoke at a May school board meeting against policies requiring teachers to refer to students by their preferred gender pronouns. After he was suspended by his school district for allegedly making a “disruptive impact,” Virginia’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that he should not have been suspended. The legal group representing the teacher welcomed Monday’s decision. “Teachers shouldn’t be forced to promote ideologies ...


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    Virginia Supreme Court reinstates teacher who objected to transgender pronoun mandate

    Virginia’s Supreme Court has sided with a teacher after he challenged a school district mandate of affirming transgender identities. Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in the Loudoun County Public School District, spoke at a May school board meeting against policies requiring teachers to refer to students by their preferred gender pronouns. After he was suspended by his school district for allegedly making a “disruptive impact,” Virginia’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that he should not have been suspended. The legal group representing the teacher welcomed Monday’s decision. “Teachers shouldn’t be forced to promote ideologies ...


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    Loudoun school board settles lawsuit with teacher who refused to use transgender student pronouns

    The Loudoun County school board settled a lawsuit Monday with a teacher it had suspended for refusing to use transgender students' pronouns. Tanner Cross, a teacher in Loudoun County at Leesburg Elementary School, reached a settlement with the county school board following a string of court victories upholding his right to freedom of speech in the classroom. Cross had been suspended by the school district after he spoke at a Loudoun County school board meeting in opposition to a board resolution that required teachers to address students based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex, saying such a ...


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