Christian Teacher’s Suit Over Student-Pronoun Rule Revived (1)

An Indiana school district may have violated federal anti-bias law when it required a Christian teacher to honor the preferred names and pronouns of transgender students, a divided Seventh Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Allowing John Kluge to continue calling all students by just their last names as a religious accommodation may have imposed an undue hardship on Brownsburg Community School Corp.'s overall business but it also may not have, the 2-1 panel said. The school district argued that accommodating Kluge imperiled its educational mission, including fostering safety for all students and providing a disruption-free learning environment, but there’s competing evidence on ...