Christian Teacher’s Student Pronoun Appeal Tests Hardship Limits

The Seventh Circuit will consider Wednesday a Christian teacher’s appeal challenging the withdrawal of a religious accommodation from using transgender students’ preferred names and pronouns, giving the court a chance to chart a path for other cases.

The primary issue before the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will be whether allowing John Kluge to address all students by their last names only imposed an “undue hardship” on Brownsburg Community School Corp. The US Supreme Court recently clarified the undue-hardship test under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in Groff v. DeJoy.

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