On Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a high school teacher who was fired for refusing to use pronouns that didn’t match a student’s biological sex could have his lawsuit against the local school board reinstated.

Peter Vlaming taught French in the West Point School District for seven years. A female student claiming to be male had a new preferred name. Vlaming used the new preferred name but simply avoided using the student’s preferred pronouns. The school demanded he use the student’s preferred pronouns, even when the student was not present.

[This is a profoundly stupid issue, in which activists want to force people into complying with their radical gender ideology through speech codes and career destruction. Pronouns are not personal — they are linguistic mechanisms. If they bother some, then it’s on the offended to figure out how to deal with it, not on the rest of us to kowtow to their own delusions about being the centers of everyone’s universe. — Ed]