DOJ Says Christian Teacher Must Use Students’ Preferred Pronouns

A Christian teacher in Indiana was properly denied a religious accommodation from his school’s transgender name-and-pronoun-use policy, the Biden administration told a federal appeals court in Chicago Thursday.

John Kluge’s practice of just calling students by their last names caused harm to students individually and to Brownsburg Community School Corp. on an institutional level, Justice Department attorney Jason Lee said. The evidence of that was clear in the court below, he said.

The harm to two transgender students in Kluge’s music and orchestra class was personal, educational, and social, Lee said. And all students were made to feel uncomfortable by ...