A state judge on Friday rejected a Virginia school system’s bid to stop a lawsuit alleging that its transgender policies discriminate against Christian students.
Several religious students challenged the school’s policies prohibiting the “deadnaming” or “misgendering” of transgender students, as well as policies allowing transgender-identifying students to use the bathroom of those of the opposite sex.
America First Legal (AFL), which argued the case for those students, said in a statement that the judge’s decision amounted to a “ruling that [Fairfax County Public Schools] FCPS’ pronoun policy punishing ‘misgendering’ and bathroom policy based on ‘gender identity’ violate students’ constitutional rights.”
In court filings, it said FCPS, one of the nation’s largest districts, had made its animus toward Christians clear, including that “rather than take the oath of office by swearing on a Bible, Torah, Koran, or other religious text (as is traditional), the current chair of the school board took his oath on Gender Queer.” (The school board chair, Karl Frisch, followed hardcore gay pornography on Twitter using the same account he used for school board campaigning, and once claimed that “Fairfax has a history of being an epicenter for right-wing religious fanaticism.”)
In court, FCPS focused on technicalities, saying that because the plaintiffs had not actually been disciplined for misgendering, they had no basis to sue. The plaintiffs’ attorney, Ian Prior, argued in court that they had engaged in “self-censorship” by avoiding using pronouns at all, and that a “credible threat of enforcement” was enough to infringe upon their rights. […]
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