California teacher settles with school district after being fired for transgender policy adherence

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I do see her point



https://www.yahoo.com/news/socal-distri ... 50793.html


"A Riverside County school district has agreed to pay $360,000 to settle a lawsuit from a former teacher who was fired last year after refusing to adhere to policies regarding transgender or gender-nonconforming students, citing her Christian beliefs.

Jessica Tapia, who taught physical education at Jurupa Valley High School, claimed in her wrongful termination lawsuit that her free speech and religious rights had been violated. She had refused — hypothetically, in statements to district personnel — to use students' preferred pronouns, to allow them to use the locker room matching their gender identity, or to "withhold information" from parents about their child's gender identity, according to the federal lawsuit.

The Jurupa Unified School District did not admit any wrongdoing, but agreed to pay Tapia $285,000, as well as $75,000 for her attorneys' fees, according to the settlement agreement signed Tuesday. Tapia also agreed not to seek future employment with the district, and both sides agreed to not disparage each other or file future lawsuits.

Julianne Fleischer, one of Tapia's attorneys, called the settlement an "incredible victory."

"Her religious beliefs were not accommodated when they could have been," said Fleischer, legal counsel for Advocates for Faith & Freedom, a Murrieta-based nonprofit religious liberties group. “We think it sends a strong message that there’s a price to pay when you ask a teacher to lie and withhold information.""

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Not going to direct this to the case cited above, I want to comment on this idea "to "withhold information" from parents about their child's gender identity."

Not every parent can put themselves in their child's shoes and understand what the child is going through when they figure out they identify as gay or transgender. As a parent your responsibility is to love and support your child no matter what, but there are parents who will flip out, get violent, abusive or kick their child out. This is why schools have the withhold information from the parents. They assume that if the child could confide in the parent they would not be seeking counselling at school.

Always think of a child's best interests and well being first.

Peace

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The lawyers made a quarter of the settlement amount, not bad being a lawyer.