The Virginia Supreme Court upheld on Aug. 30 a lower court decision to reinstate a gym teacher who spoke at a school board meeting against a proposal to require calling transgender students by their preferred pronouns.
On June 6, a county circuit court judge had ordered that teacher Tanner Cross be reinstated after he was suspended over his comments, made during a Loudoun County School Board meeting. Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James Plowman ruled that Tanner was exercising his First Amendment rights. Plowman directed Loudoun County Public Schools to immediately reinstate Tanner pending a full trial.
