A Virginia school board has agreed to pay a former high school teacher more than $500,000 in damages and attorneys' fees as part of a legal settlement after the instructor's dismissal in 2018 for refusing to use a transgender student's pronouns.

The West Point School Board agreed Monday to pay Peter Vlaming, a former French teacher, $575,000 to settle a lawsuit brought against the Richmond-area school board by Vlaming and the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The board also cleared the dismissal from his record and, separate from the settlement agreement, changed its policies to conform to model transgender policies finalized by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration last year, the ADF said in a news release.

The model policies,........

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