October 6th 2023.
A Florida judge recently supported a teacher from Miami-Dade County who had been fired in June 2020. This was after the teacher, Yojary E. Mundaray, reportedly refused to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student. The incident reportedly occurred in December 2019 when Mundaray was disciplining the student for “routine classroom horseplay.”
During the incident, the student, who was born female, pulled the teacher aside and informed her that he was trans and preferred using masculine pronouns. Mundaray then responded with, “I’m a Christian, and my God made no mistakes.” To which the student replied, “I think God made a mistake.”
Judge John Van Laningham recommended the state Education Practices Commission exonerate Mundaray. He reversed the claim that she had pinned her religious views on the student and wrote in his ruling, “Given that Mundaray made no attempt to force Pat to accept, conform to, or even acknowledge any Christian doctrine, the allegation that she imposed her personal religious views on Pat is untrue.”
Van Laningham even referred to the student, “Pat,” by female pronouns. However, he also referred to transgender people and their supporters as members of a “new secular faith” and said, “Advocates of transgenderism can be as doctrinaire as religious zealots these days.” His comments have been met with criticism and led to him being suspended for five days.
It is important to note that Florida law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, established a school policy that “a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex.”
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