Christian Teacher Suit Over Student Pronoun Rule to Get New Look

The Seventh Circuit sent back to a lower court a lawsuit by a Christian music teacher in Indiana who refused on religious grounds to address transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns.

Remand was necessary so that the lower court can apply “in the first instance” the US Supreme Court’s clarified standard in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act religious accommodation cases, the single-page order issued Friday said.

In Groff v. Dejoy, the justices on June 29 unanimously held that an employer must show that it would create a “substantial” burden for its business in order ...