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Medical Association Wants 6th Circ. Pronoun Ruling Redo
Law360 (May 18, 2021, 9:10 PM EDT) The American Medical Association and other groups spoke up for the use of gender-affirming pronouns in schools Tuesday, asking the Sixth Circuit to reconsider its ruling on a free-speech case by an Ohio professor and saying evidence supports the university s policy of respecting students gender identities.
The National Association of Social Workers and the American Academy of Pediatrics joined the AMA s brief, which, like two separate friend-of-the-court filings Tuesday, asked the appeals court for a rehearing possibly by the full bench of its opinion in professor Nicholas K. Meriwether s case against the trustees at Shawnee State University.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit late last month decided to side with a professor who deliberately misgendered his student. For an entire semester, Shawnee State University professor Nicholas K. Meriwether refused to use female titles and pronouns although the student told him that this is how she should be addressed. The court explained that the law demands respecting the professor’s freedoms: academic freedom, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. This, the court clarified, entails allowing the professor to express his belief that “God created human beings as either male or female,” and that sex cannot be changed.