Ohio teacher files lawsuit claiming she was forced to resign after refusing to use students' preferred names and pronouns
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An Ohio middle school teacher is suing her former district, school board and education officials, claiming she was forced to resign after she refused to use students' preferred names and pronouns. The teacher, Vivian Geraghty, said her constitutionally protected religious beliefs prevented her from doing so.
Geraghty taught English at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon, a small city about 50 miles south of Cleveland, from August 2020 until her role at the school ended in August 2022. According to the lawsuit she filed, she refused requests by by two students that she refer to them by "names associated with their new gender identities rather than their legal names. One student also asked to be referenced with pronouns inconsistent with the student's sex."
About a week after the students requested the changes, the school's counselor emailed Geraghty and several other teachers to ask them to do so, the lawsuit says.
