Last week, a public school teacher in Kansas filed a lawsuit against her district superintendent, board members, and school principal for violating her First Amendment rights to free speech and exercising her religion after she was suspended for misgendering a trans student in her math class. Pamela Ricard, who teaches at Fort Riley Middle School in Fort Riley, maintains that her school’s denial of her request to ignore her student’s name and pronouns "deprived her of due process and equal protection of law,” CNN reported. Basically, this transphobic teacher is saying that respecting her students’ gender identities is against her religion.
In April 2021, Ricard was suspended for three days after she refused to address a student by his pronouns and instead referred to him as, “Miss,” according to AP News. The school didn’t have an existing policy on pronouns, but found her behavior to be a violation of the school’s bullying and diversity policies.
