Vlaming was placed on paid administrative leave Oct. 31 after the school’s principal said he did not obey an order to use the preferred identity pronouns for a 9th grade student who was trying to “transition from female to male.”
The student asked to be called by the male pronouns “he” and “him.”
Vlaming insists the incident that got him fired amounted to a slip of the tongue, CBN News reported.
He was teaching a virtual reality exercise in his class when he called out, referencing the transgender student, “Don’t let her walk into the wall.”
Vlaming said, however, that while he would address the student by the new name, his Christian faith would not allow him to address a female as a male.
