A teacher who disagreed with the mandatory use of gender pronouns at the school where she taught won in court.
When Ohio school officials ordered English teacher Vivian Geraghty to address her students by their preferred gender pronouns, she resigned. The case was successful when a federal court in Ohio ruled that the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech and religion, had been violated.
A teacher who was forced to use gender pronouns wins in court
U.S. District Court Judge Pamela Barker noted that the Jackson Local School District “forced Geraghty to use the preferred names and pronouns of students.” In practice, this meant forcing the teacher “to speak in a manner inconsistent with her views on political and religious issues.” By doing so, an Ohio school district violated the First Amendment rights of a Christian teacher.
Geraghty was hired as a full-time English teacher at the end of the 2021 school year. She resigned in 2022 after being ordered to use students’ “preferred pronouns.” In her lawsuit, the teacher argued that she could not use pronouns that did not reflect the child’s biological sex because it “would force her to accept a concept of gender identity that conflicted with her religious belief that God created two immutable sexes: male and female.”
Lawyer: Schools should focus on education, not imposing ideological conformity
As reported on the website PCh24.pl, conservative advocates responded positively to the decision. Sarah Parshall Perry of The Heritage Foundation called the ruling “good news for religious freedom.” She admitted that she expected more similar rulings in response to forcing teachers to use students’ “pronominal pronouns.”
Thomas Jipping, also of The Heritage Foundation, pointed out that this is “further evidence that these gender policies have no connection to curriculum or administration… They are ideological policies that schools choose to impose on children and their families.”
Arielle Del Turco, director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty, stressed that “teachers should not be forced to speak out in favor of one ideological perspective that violates their deeply held religious beliefs.” She added that schools should focus on education, not on imposing ideological conformity.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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