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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Io Dodds

Indiana school wins appeal against teacher who refused to use transgender students’ chosen names

AP Photo/Darron Cummings

A US court has upheld the right of public schools to force religious teachers to call transgender students by their chosen names and pronouns.

John Kluge, a former music teacher at Brownsburg High School outside Indianapolis, had sued his old employer for trampling on his freedom of belief by asking him to follow its anti-discrimination policy for trans pupils.

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