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A Virginia<\/a> school board has changed its policies to stop employees from forcing other teachers and students to address them by pronouns that differ from their biological sex.<\/p>\n

At its Dec. 15 meeting, the Chesapeake School Board voted 7-2 to amend its policy on professional conduct to ban the compelled speech of employees regarding personal titles or pronouns.<\/p>\n

The updated policy, as reported Thursday by The Christian Post<\/a>, now says that all employees are expected to refrain from compelling other staff or students from addressing any employee or referring to any employee in a way that violates the staff member(or student)’s constitutionally protected rights.<\/p>\n

Employees are also instructed to “refrain from providing a student his or her preferred personal title or pronouns if such preferred personal title or pronouns do not correspond to his or her sex.”<\/p>\n

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The decision was reached after nearly an hour of public comment, with several pro-LGBTQ speakers voicing their opposition to the measure.<\/p>\n

Angela Swygert, the chair of the Chesapeake Public Schools Board of Education, told critics she supported the measure, arguing that the use of alternative pronouns and titles is a “controversial and complex issue” that is best handled by families and does not “belong in the classroom.”<\/p>\n

The changes are meant to foster mutual respect, she explained.<\/p>\n

“A person who does not fundamentally agree with the use of alternative pronouns and titles cannot be compelled to use them,” Swygert said at the meeting.<\/p>\n

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The policy change is focused on district staff and employee activity and does not stop employees from voluntarily using alternative pronouns among peers.<\/p>\n

“These revisions do not in any way govern how these issues are addressed for our students,” she added<\/a> at the meeting. “Our policy has been and will remain that we navigate this issue with students on a case-by-case basis, in full and transparent communication and partnership with their parents.”<\/p>\n

The measure’s approval drew a harsh rebuke from the editorial board of the local paper, The Virginia-Pilot, which declared that the updated pronoun policy would effectively “ban transgender people from working as teachers and staff” in the district.<\/p>\n

“In succumbing to trans panic and promoting discrimination against a marginalized group, members of the School Board have made a decision that will reflect poorly on all that the city hopes to achieve,” the paper’s editorial board wrote<\/a>. “They may be cheering themselves today, but this ignoble act puts them firmly on the wrong side of history.”<\/p>\n

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Teachers across the country<\/a> have taken legal action against their school districts over school policies forcing them to address students by their preferred pronouns, saying this compelled speech violates the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

Virginia-based West Point School Board agreed to pay former high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, $575,000 in damages and attorney\u2019s fees in 2024 after he was fired <\/a>for refusing to call a transgender student by their preferred pronouns.<\/p>\n

Ohio middle school teacher Vivian Geraghty also received<\/a> a $450,000 settlement after she sued the Jackson Local School District for forcing her to resign after she refused to refer to students by their preferred pronouns.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the Chesapeake Public Schools Board chair for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/virginia-school-board-bans-employees-from-forcing-students-teachers-use-preferred-pronouns <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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