French teacher Peter Vlaming was fired in 2018 for shunning the use of pronouns to refer to a transgender-identifying student. On Sept. 30, the West Point School Board in Virginia agreed to pay him $575,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees.
“I’m so relieved that our basic fundamental rights of freedom of expression, of freedom of religion have been formally upheld,” Vlaming told The Daily Signal.
The School Board cleared Vlaming’s termination from his record and changed its policies to conform to the new Virginia education policies established by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va.
Vlaming is a Christian, so he believes God created male and female. Still, the teacher was willing to respect the rights of his students to disagree.
When one of his female students started identifying as male, Vlaming avoided referring to her with pronouns, instead using her preferred…
