An Ohio high school teacher claims in a lawsuit against her former employer that she was forced to resign after refusing to refer to students by their preferred pronouns.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of former Jackson Memorial High School teacher Vivian Geraghty by Alliance Defending Freedom, claims that her school district required teachers to participate in the “social transition” of students in her class. who have “transitioned”. to a gender that was incompatible with her sex.” Jackson Memorial High School is in Massillon, Ohio.
Geraghty, however, refused to participate in politics due to his Christian religious beliefs. The lawsuit alleges that the school “expelled” her within two hours of Geraghty telling principal Kacy Carter about her reservations about politics.
“But as soon as the defendants discovered that Ms. Geraghty had a religious basis for resisting their attempt to implement an orthodoxy, they forced her to resign. Two hours after being notified that Ms. Geraghty had reservations about her approach to the “On August 26, without any complaint from a student or disruption of school services, the defendants expelled her from the school,” the lawsuit says.
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An Ohio high school teacher claims in a lawsuit against her former employer that she was forced to resign after refusing to refer to students by their preferred pronouns.
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When Geraghty went to Carter and the Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Monica Myers, and informed them of her religious beliefs, the teacher was allegedly told that she “would have to set aside her beliefs as a public servant.”
ADF legal counsel Logan Spena said in a news release that the school district unconstitutionally forced Geraghty to resign.
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“No school official can force a teacher to give up her religious beliefs to keep her job. The school tried to force Vivian to recite as true the school’s point of view on issues that go to the core of morality and human identity, such as what makes us male or female, by directing you to be personally involved in the social transition of your students. The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power,” Geraghty said.
The lawsuit alleges that the school district violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
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A spokesperson for the Jackson Local School District told Fox News Digital that it is aware of the lawsuit.
“This district will always strive to provide a safe and comfortable environment for all of our nearly 6,000 students to learn. We have engaged legal counsel and will have no further comment on pending litigation,” the spokesperson said.
