Christian Teacher Again Denied Trial Over Student Pronoun Rule

An Indiana high school scored a pre-trial victory again in a Christian teacher’s lawsuit claiming he was denied accommodation from its requirement that transgender students be identified by their preferred first names and pronouns.

The evidence showed that excusing the teacher from Brownsburg Community School Corp.'s transgender name-and-pronoun-use policy would have imposed an undue hardship on its obligation to educate all students, the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana said Tuesday.

The decision came on remand from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which in July vacated the lower court’s prior grant of summary ...