05/17/2021 at 6:54 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
Judge had asked university if it would also force Jewish professor to address student as “My Fuhrer.”
By Greg Piper, Just the News, March 27, 2021
A public university violated a professor’s constitutional rights by punishing him for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
In a unanimous opinion written by Judge Amul Thapar, a Supreme Court short-lister for former President Trump, the court compared the Ohio university’s behavior to a “McCarthy era” law against “subversive” government employees.
Philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether, a “devout Christian,” sought an accommodation under which he would not have to address the student as a woman in classroom discussions, which often touched on gender identity as a cultural controversy.
Members and supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community. (Dibyangshu Sarkar, AFP)
An appeals court ruling in the United States around a professor refusing to use a transgender student s pronouns is something South African universities should consider when highlighting challenges facing LGBTQI communities, writes
Omphemetse Sibanda.
There are some who say that What s in the name! – the latest and groundbreaking freedom of expression-related case in the US about a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio – is sure to bring much debate and contestations around the intersection of freedom of expression and the right of others not sharing the expression.
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