you both. thank you, good to be here. shannon: to give a little background, there was a student in your class, biologically born male, transitioning to female. asked that you use female pronouns, and i know there were different compromises that you and the school talked about, just using the first name of the last name. eventually, you cannot come to an agreement, and you said using these pronouns is a violation of my religious beliefs. how so? well, it s important to remember that the university is a marketplace of ideas, and not merely an assembly line for one type of thought. in this particular case, i was being required to endorse an ideology i do not hold. i don t think public universities should be in the business of requiring people to endorse or express ideologies that they don t hold. shannon: this is what part of the magistrate s decision had to say about the allegations that you were forced to endorse
professor is far from giving up. nicholas meriwether and tyson layinghoffer, the student who was in your class biologically born male, transitioning to female asked you use female pronouns. there were different compromises, you talked about using the first name, last name, eventually cannot come to an agreement and use it using these pronouns is a violation of my religious also? it is important to remember the university is a marketplace of ideas and not merely an assembly line for one type of thought and in this particular case i was being required to endorse of ideology i do not hold. i don t think public universities should be in the business of requiring people to