Judge Reinstates VA Teacher Suspended
For Refusing To Affirm Trans Identity For
Kids, Calls School Response ‘Vindictive’
Daily Wire,
by
Jon Brown
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/8/2021 6:00:15 PM
A Loudoun County, Virginia, elementary school teacher who was placed on administrative leave in May for refusing to affirm transgender identity in children was reinstated by a judge Tuesday.Byron “Tanner” Cross, who teaches physical education at Leesburg Elementary School, secured a temporary injunction from Judge James Plowman in his lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), according to an announcement from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which defended him.“BREAKING: Tanner Cross, a Virginia elementary school teacher and ADF client who was suspended for raising concerns to the board about a proposed gender policy,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/8/2021 6:06:18 PM (No. 810021)
Some life left in the Old Dominion! Now oust the school board
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/8/2021 6:20:22 PM (No. 810033)
Another win in the courts - tide is turning
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma 6/8/2021 8:08:08 PM (No. 810128)
Good for this teacher. I listened to his interview on WMAL Very intelligent young man. Loves teaching.
Teachers teach reading writing arithmetic and history and biology. I’ll teach my kids the the other basics of life.
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“I’m very concerned about you firing me”
“You’re fired”
“And that’s my concern”
What a crazy country we’ve become!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/8/2021 8:16:37 PM (No. 810137)
Some sanity, at least for now. But this issue isn't going away. Some trans see gender as a sliding scale. Today 60% male, tomorrow only 35% male. Keep everyone guessing which pronouns should be used at any given moment. Lawsuits await if you utter she instead of he or them/their/thar.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/8/2021 9:42:57 PM (No. 810184)
So to all you confused students.
It's his/her she/him.
Deal with it!!👏
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A 'proposed gender policy' is Orwellian even if the policy is not yet enacted.
In this case, 'gender policy' is simply the forced utterance of things that do not exist.
Whatever you think of gay marriage, it had two knock-on effects: 1) it eliminated the militant gays' favorite wedge issue and forced them to find another and 2) it convinced far too many that they can and should seek official and/or legal enforcement of their worldview.
We are light years beyond tolerance, acceptance, etc. This is, without exaggeration, a North Korean-style attempt at punishment of wrongthink.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 6/9/2021 8:08:53 AM (No. 810427)
I hope the judge made them pay him any back pay that he may have lost.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/9/2021 8:29:23 AM (No. 810452)
Remember the slippery slope we were promised we would never experience when the gays wanted us to accept gay marriage? It was all a lie to lure us into accepting whatever they chose to shove down our throats. Acceptance was never the solution, it was always their intention to throw open the door to every perversion under the sun. Normality is an affront to them. It was not enough that they were tolerated in society, they demanded we celebrate them. I am not in any way in favor of discriminating against any group of people, but I am just as adamant that I will not be forced to accept that which I believe is morally wrong and unacceptable to my religious views.
We are living in a upside down world where a small minority of people make demands of the majority while issuing serious threats if we do not comply. We are fired, canceled, ridiculed and verbally insulted if we will not act in accordance to their orthodoxy. Enough. We are equal in this country. One group does not deserve special treatment or have superiority.
Our children in school should never have to suffer an indoctrination that is in opposition with the beliefs and teachings of their parents. That is simply unacceptable. Remove any and all social justice issues from the curriculum. Teach our children the basics. Leave all this nonsense at the school house door. If parents want their children to be indoctrinated in the dogma of the left, let them create schools with that philosophy as their fundamental principles, but leave the rest of us out. Public education should be basic skills, reading, writing, math, history, civics, government, music and art. Concentrate on that and you will produce great students who will be successful and well grounded. You can fully educate a child without the necessity of indoctrinating them in leftist ideology and have a very successful outcome. Let the libs build their schools if they cannot support classic education. The virtue signaling that goes on in education today is an impediment to truth in education and actually harms students and those teachers who do not agree with this dogma. We have for far too long submitted to an ideology that is in direct opposition to our values and beliefs and our children should not be subjected to this mental abuse. The left has the means to create their own schools, let them have at it. Americans are sick and tired of their children being bullied by activists posing as teachers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/9/2021 8:33:26 AM (No. 810457)
IMO, a good way to solve the 'bathroom' problem is to designate them XX and Universal. Choose whichever applies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
curious1 6/9/2021 8:42:02 AM (No. 810463)
A gender is for words, a sex is for humans. These leftard clowns are really, really ignorant. They hate being told that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/9/2021 9:58:11 AM (No. 810547)
It's starting to happen... one step at a time...Americans have had enough...next joke on US will be biden's visit to meet Putin/rasputin... that will be a real show...the world order crowd run by soros will have to walk a delicate line because Putin is full of himself and cannot be controlled like obama/biden ...should be interesting to watch as the players face the cameras and the adoring fake news...do you suppose Putin got his pipeline approved by biden as payment for going easy on the munchkin/in/chief?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/9/2021 10:40:49 AM (No. 810608)
#8, he was on paid leave.
I’ve been following this story closely because my daughter and her family live in Loudoun County and my grandchildren may one day be attending those schools. I will try to talk them into sending the kids to private school and will finance it but don’t know if they will go for it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/9/2021 11:07:07 AM (No. 810648)
The teacher will be reinstated... for now. Want to bet there will suddenly need to be budget cuts or teacher layoffs due to pandemic and guess what will need to be cut first: the male PE teacher! I wonder how much help the teachers union was in this case? Probably not much.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zarin 6/9/2021 11:32:38 AM (No. 810690)
#9 Hooray! I truly agree with your post. I can accept people with their difficulties but they cannot force me to celebrate something that all the divine religions have taught is not healthy or good for the individual, the family or the community. Yet they are doing that - trampling on the rights of individual & the whole community. And no one 'in power' is questioning or warning against this terrorism. The problem is that we have at least 2 generations who have been trained in social activism rather than common sense, obedience to God & classic logic. Postmodernism, Marxism & Critical Theory - all having roots in Hegel et al - have become the poisons. Seeking purpose in 'fighting' for the rights of race, radical feminism, gay & trans - many people who are comfortable & affluent have become 'St. George' ! The dragon is the evil white patriarchy & capitalism. Too many of our young professionals - physicians, lawyers etc are activists 1st & professionals 2nd. Critical Theory is taught as a standard part of the curriculum in Schools of Education ( Robin Deangelo is the author of a well used text). For years social 'scientists' have been declaring that sex roles are artificial and indeed are forcefully imposed social constructs which in no way connected to biology. This despite the fact that really good & huge studies have shown that men & women differ is job preference and likes & dislikes. (They have really subverted the language.) Note that the toy section of stores are being turned 'gender' neutral.
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Public schools have become a damaging cancer for school children and the nation as a whole.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
columba 6/9/2021 3:48:17 PM (No. 810911)
How far off the beaten path do you have to be to go back to the first four pages of the Bible and then conclude that the Creator was misinformed?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zarin 6/9/2021 4:49:26 PM (No. 810959)
#8 The private schools are just as bad. Critical Theory has taken over the Colleges of Education.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver 6/9/2021 8:14:08 PM (No. 811156)
It is a sad commentary on the state of our union when a flash of sanity such as this stands out the point of getting into the news.
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