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Virginia Gym Teacher Placed On Leave For Refusing To Use Preferred Pronouns

Ashe Schow
Virginia Gym Teacher Placed On Leave For Refusing To Use Preferred Pronouns
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A Christian gym teacher in Virginia stood up at a Loudoun County Public Schools meeting on Tuesday during a discussion about “Rights of Transgender and Gender-Expansive Students” to say that he would not use a student’s preferred pronouns because that would be “lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child.”

Byron “Tanner” Cross has now been placed on leave after he stood up at the meeting, the New York Post reported. The gym teacher began his remarks by expressing love and empathy for transgender students.

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