Ohio public university to pay $400,000 in damages after punishing professor over preferred pronoun controversy

Josh Rosenbluth

2022-04-17 16:48:25 UTC

Post by Johnny
By Adam Sabes
Published April 16, 2022
A public university in Ohio will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney
fees after punishing a professor for declining a male student's demand
to be referred to as a female.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-public-university-to-pay-400000-in-damages-after-punishing-professor-for-misgendering-student
These liberal fanatics just found out they can't force people to submit
to their will.
Three out of four Americans agree there are only two sexes, so I'm glad
the Democrats are pushing this transgender bullshit, it can only hurt
them.

You keep misstating that those of us who support transgender rights
think there are more than two sexes.

On the merits of this case, generally speech that is part of the job can
be censored by the government acting as employer. However, there may be
an exception for university professors because of the need of the free
flow of ideas in a classroom. For example, you don't want to censor a
professor for discussing unpopular political beliefs in a PoliSci
course, and the First Amendment likely forbids such censorship at a
public university.

But in the case, the requirement to refer to the student by their
preferred pronoun had no impact on the free flow of ideas. It's no
different than a requirement that the professor refer to each person by
their last name rather than their first name. Such a requirement ought
not violate the First Amendment.