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Takket

(21,632 posts)
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 11:04 AM Mar 2021

Drumpf judge tells transgender persons they don't decide their gender. Other people do

Disgusting

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/29/us/ohio-professor-transgender-appeals-trnd/index.html

CNN)A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student.

Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally disciplined him for refusing to follow a school policy requiring the use of a student's pronouns that match their gender identity, according to the decision.
A district court previously dismissed Meriwether's lawsuit for lack of standing. Friday's decision by a three-judge panel from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals revives the lawsuit and sends it back to a lower court where Meriwether can make his argument that his First Amendment rights of free speech and religion and his 14th Amendment right to due process were violated.

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Drumpf judge tells transgender persons they don't decide their gender. Other people do (Original Post) Takket Mar 2021 OP
This Little Vest-Pocket Jordan Petersen Wanna-Be May Still Lose, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2021 #1

The Magistrate

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1. This Little Vest-Pocket Jordan Petersen Wanna-Be May Still Lose, Sir
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 11:45 AM
Mar 2021

I would make the modest suggestion that all students at the school when addressing or speaking of the wretch employ the pronouns 'she', 'her' and 'it' at all times....

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