The court's ruling paves the way for the teacher to prevail on her civil rights claims.
A lawsuit filed by an Ohio middle school teacher who resigned rather than participate in her students’ social transitioning is headed for trial, a federal judge has
After two more meetings the same morning, Geraghty and the school were at an impasse, according to the record. She resigned and later, alleging she was forced to quit because she refused to use the trans students’ preferred names and pronouns, in violation of her First Amendment rights, including free speech, compelled speech and free exercise of religion.
Geraghty was a middle school English Language Arts teacher. … Her job was to teach English …. It was not her job ‘to teach anything with regard to LGBTQ issues.’ … Indeed, ‘gender identity and sexual orientation’ were not part of the middle school curriculum at all. When the school compelled Geraghty to use the students’ preferred names and pronouns, it forced her to “wade into a matter of public concern,” the court determined.
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