Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns

Trans student rights often hang in the balance. Maskot/Getty Images

In Tennessee, a proposed law would let public school teachers refuse to call transgender students by the pronouns they use for themselves.

At Shawnee State University – a public university in Ohio – a professor got paid US$400,000 to settle a lawsuit that he filed against the school after being disciplined for refusing to refer to a trans woman student as “she” or “her.”