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Maya Yang

US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman

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The university said, ‘We adamantly deny that anyone at Shawnee State deprived Dr Meriwether of his free speech rights or his rights to freely exercise his religion.’
The university said: ‘We adamantly deny that anyone at Shawnee State deprived Dr Meriwether of his free speech rights or his rights to exercise his religion.’ Photograph: Andrew Baumert/Alamy

A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to one of its professors after it rebuked him for refusing to use a student’s pronouns.

In 2018, Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio, addressed a transgender student as “sir” when she raised her hand in class.

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