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Professor claims school violated his First Amendment rights by punishing him for misgendering a student

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Philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether is continuing his legal fight against Shawnee State University, arguing that the school's insistence that he refer to a student by their preferred pronouns violates his First Amendment rights.

The case was heard Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit after it was dismissed by a judge earlier this year.

According to the lawsuit, on the first day of Meriwether's political philosophy class, in January 2018, he answered a student's question with, "Yes, sir."  That student, identified in the lawsuit as "Jane Doe," approached Meriwether after class to inform him that she is a transgender female and prefers feminine pronouns (she/her).

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