Christian Teacher Seeks Further Appeal in Student Pronoun Case

A Christian teacher’s religious accommodation claim over being required to use transgender students’ preferred names and pronouns was wrongly rejected and should be reexamined following upcoming US Supreme Court guidance, he said.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit should wait for the justices to decide Groff v. DeJoy and then rehear the appeal in his Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act lawsuit, John Kluge said in his petition seeking en banc review. Holding that Brownsburg Community School Corp. was justified in withdrawing an accommodation that permitted him to use just the last names ...