Telling the Truth Gets Teacher Placed on Leave, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post, June 2, 2021

A Virginia gym teacher tells the school board he won’t lie to children and acquiesce to “transgender” demands.

Byron Cross is a gym teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in Loudoun, Virginia. Sadly, Cross may have taught his last lesson at the school following his refusal to lie to children. Speaking before the Loudoun County school board last week, Cross stated that he would not “affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa,” because children suffering from gender dysphoria need to be helped, not lied to.

Cross was speaking in response to the school district’s policy mandating that public school staff use a student’s preferred pronouns and “allow gender-expansive and transgender students to participate in such activities in a manner consistent with the student’s gender identity.” In other words, deny reality. …

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