Important victory for transgender students! Seventh Circuit Court rules teachers cannot misgender students based on religion.
On April 7, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that public school teachers do not have a constitutional right to misgender a student just because that student is transgender. Importantly, the Court also held that religious accommodation cannot justify the “harm to students and disruption to the learning environment” that occurs as a result of a teacher actively misgendering their student.
This holding comes from a 2019 lawsuit filed by John Kluge, a music teacher at Brownsburg High School in Indiana, who was forced to resign from his position because he refused to follow the school’s policy regarding transgender students. The school’s policy mandated that teachers must use transgender student’s correct names and pronouns if the student provided written consent from a doctor and parent.
his religious freedom was violated and that he had experienced religious discrimination and retaliation., Kluge alleged that he could not follow the school’s policies because of his Christian beliefs and ignored his transgender students altogether. One of his trans students admitted that Kluge’s treatment made him “feel alienated, upset, and dehumanized. It made me dread going to orchestra class each day.
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