Catholic Teacher Fails in Bias Suit on Trans Student Pronoun Use

A Catholic teacher can’t pursue a religious discrimination lawsuit against the school district that fired her after she refused to use the pronouns that aligned with a student’s gender identity.

Qualified immunity blocks the former Oakland Unified School District teacher’s First Amendment free speech and free exercise claims against school administrators and board members, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said. The teacher waited too long to raise a religious bias claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the order filed Monday said.

Plaintiff Mirella Ramirez’s case is one of several ...