Teacher quits in tears after being told she can’t misgender trans students anymore

Teacher Laura Morris held back tears as she quit because she couldn’t misgender trans students anymore
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Citing her identity as “a believer in Christ,” a teacher in Virginia quit in a tearful speech in front of the school board because her district was going to require her to use trans students’ correct names and pronouns.

“School board, I quit,” Laura Morris said, sobbing and complaining that her “dissenting opinion is not allowed” in the district anymore. “I quit. I quit your policies. I quit your trainings and I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents – the children.”

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Despite her pleas about children, Morris was speaking against a policy adopted by the Loudoun County School Board last night to make school more welcoming to trans students, who have a high school drop out rate in part due to discrimination and bullying they face in schools.

The district’s new policy for next year is happening because the state passed a law requiring…

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