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A Loudoun County Public Schools teacher is suing the school district after he was placed on paid leave and barred from school grounds for refusing to address transgender students by their chosen names and pronouns. Physical education instructor Tanner Cross of Leesburg Elementary School declared he would never “affirm that a biological boy can be a girl, and vice versa” during a Loudoun County School Board meeting in late May. Cross said his strong Christian faith drove him to the refusal, insisting that using transgender students’ selected pronouns and names amounts to “lying to a child . . . abuse to a child . . . and it’s sinning against our God.”
Cross was speaking against a school policy, still in the draft phase, that would require Loudoun staffers to use the names and pronouns that reflect students’ gender identities. One School Board member recently said the policy is meant to prevent children from feeling isolated and marginalized for their differences.
I understand wanting to be recognized by our correct gender identity, but suing someone for not using pronouns is simply unreasonable and irresponsible.
This is just sad…
Honestly, at this point, all I can do is sit back and laugh.