INTERVIEW | Teacher Peter Vlaming on Being Fired for Refusing to Use 'Preferred' Pronouns

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Peter Vlaming believes words have power, a conviction that cost him his job. Vlaming was fired from his position teaching French at West Point High School in Virginia in 2018 for refusing to call a female student by male pronouns. Vlaming said he was essentially given the option to either “deny” his own “Christian belief, in order to stay in the school system,” or stand and fight. “Sooner or later, you have to say, ‘No, I'm not going to do that,’” he said, a decision that cost him his teaching career. Vlaming sued the school board, and now, the Virginia Supreme Court will hear Vlaming’s case on Friday. Vlaming and Caleb Dalton, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, join "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the significance of the case and what the court’s decision could mean for the free speech rights of teachers. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are some hills that are worth dying on.
0:04.8	And this is one of them.
0:11.7	This is the daily signal podcast for Thursday, November 3rd.
0:14.7	I'm Virginia Allen.
0:15.9	And that was Peter Blaming, a former French teacher in the West Point School District
0:20.2	of Virginia.
0:21.6	Peter lost his job in 2018 when he refused to use male pronouns to refer to one of his
0:27.4	female students.
0:29.1	Now the Virginia Supreme Court is weighing in on his case, a case that will likely affect
0:34.2	many other teachers facing similar challenges over their free speech rights.
0:39.4	Peter and his legal representation, Caleb Dalton, with Alliance Defending Freedom, joined
0:44.1	the show today to discuss the case and its significance.
0:47.6	Stay tuned for our conversation after this.
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1:21.1	Peter Blaming is a former French teacher in the West Point School District of Virginia.
1:25.8	He lost his job in 2018 because he refused to use preferred pronouns of a girl in his
1:32.4	French class who identified as a boy.
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