A US teacher has won a $450,000 payout after being told to resign for refusing to use transgender students' preferred names and pronouns. Vivian Geraghty sued the Jackson Local School District in Ohio, claiming her First Amendment rights were violated. The court ruled that forcing her to use the students' preferred names was 'compelled speech' and that the school's pronoun policy was not neutral.
A US teacher who was allegedly told to resign after refusing to call trans students by their preferred gender pronouns has won a $450,000 (£362,000) payout. Vivian Geraghty took legal action against the Jackson Local School District, Ohio, in 2022.She claims the school district violated her First Amendment rights by penalising her for refusing to use a students’ preferred names or gender pronouns.
A ruling from the US District Court for the Northern District found that forcing Ms Geraghty to use the student’s preferred name was a form of “compelled speech”. The ruling added that the school’s “pronoun practice was not neutral.”In 2022, two of Ms Geraghty’s students reportedly requested that she call them names that were different to the ones on the school’s roster. Geraghty was aware that these requests were “part of the student’s social transition”. But the teacher did not agree on principle due to her religious beliefs, allegedly stating that she “wanted those students out of her classroom.”Ms Geraghty carried on calling to the trans students the names they were assigned at birth, despite being sent her a follow-up request via email by one of the students. That student later complained about it to a school counselor. Ms Geraghty was warned in a follow-up meeting that the student felt uncomfortable, but she maintained that religious beliefs also made her uncomfortable using preferred names or pronouns “because she would know what was behind it.”She was told in a second meeting “it was going to be a problem” if she did not comply, the filing shows. In a third meeting, Ms Geraghty claimed the principal said that “If that is your final decision, then we need a letter of resignation effective today”
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