A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously ruled in favor of a professor who refused to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found that Shawnee State University in southern Ohio violated the First Amendment’s free speech and free exercise clauses by punishing Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor, for using a transgender student’s biological pronouns. The ruling reversed a previous district court decision dismissing Meriwether’s claims.
