School Pronoun Rule, or Lack of One, Focus of Teacher Appeal (1)

A Kansas City school district faced tough questions about its practice of following students’ lead on gender identity as judges weighed reviving a former phys-ed teacher’s religious bias case Thursday.

Christian teacher Geri Bachman unsuccessfully sought a religious accommodation to the Missouri district’s directive that employees use the names and pronouns students ask them to use—even if the same students request different identifiers from other teachers.

She seems to allege that to avoid taking a position on how to address transgender students, the “school district attempted to punt and defer this and put the decision off on the students,” Judge ...