Loudoun County Teacher Takes Gender Pronoun Fight to Virginia Supreme Court
Virginia | July 2, 2021
After an elementary school teacher in Loudoun County was suspended for voicing his opposition to using students’ preferred gender pronouns at a school board meeting, his case might be headed to the Virginia Supreme Court.
Tyson Langhofer, an attorney for Byron Tanner Cross who is an elementary physical education teacher in the district, has filed a brief with the state’s highest Court asking it not to hear Loudoun County’s appeal on the issue.
The county filed its appeal after a trial court reinstated Cross because “his comments to the school board in May on a proposed policy on using a student’s preferred pronouns was made in a public meeting,” which gives him First Amendment protections, according to WTOP.
Langhofer argues in his brief that the trial court was correct in its ruling, and that Loudon County was not able to identify a “legal error in the [trial court’s] decision.”…
(Excerpts from the Virginia Star)