Teacher’s Complaints for Transgender Son Back Retaliation Suit

A Tennessee school board wasn’t entitled to dismissal of a teacher’s federal education law-based claim that her firing was pay back for opposing its bias against her transgender son, a Memphis federal judge ruled.

Plaintiff Cynthia Wieland claims she was terminated based on her multiple objections to the Arlington, Tenn., board’s continued use of her son’s “dead name,” despite being asked several times not to use it, including in posters displayed in his high school honoring students who received high ACT scores.

Sex discrimination under Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments includes bias based on gender identity, the US ...